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13-letter words containing k, l, e, o

  • propeller key — feature key
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
  • smokelessness — the state or quality of producing or having no smoke
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
  • take leave of — to say goodbye to
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • truelove knot — a complicated ornamental knot, especially a double knot having two interlacing bows, regarded as an emblem of true love or interwoven affections.
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
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