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15-letter words containing k, n, o, t, e, r

  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
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