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14-letter words containing k, i, o

  • package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
  • pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
  • placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
  • pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • pointing stick — TrackPoint
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • printing works — an establishment in which printing is carried out
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • railroad track — railway line
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
  • roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • saigo takamori — 1828–77, Japanese samurai, who led (1868) the coup that restored imperial government. In 1877 he reluctantly led a samurai rebellion, committing suicide when it failed
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • schoolies week — (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
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