15-letter words containing k, o, e, r
- on/off the mark — If something is off the mark, it is inaccurate or incorrect. If it is on the mark, it is accurate or correct.
- orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- orekhovo-zuyevo — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow.
- orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- peak production — the maximum production
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- pocket computer — palmtop
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
- preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
- pressure cooker — a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
- programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
- research worker — investigative scientist
- reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- risk one's neck — to take a great risk
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- seasonal worker — a worker who is employed for a particular period of the year, such as harvest, or Christmas
- shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle