15-letter words containing k, o, h, e
- hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- katathermometer — a thermometer used to measure the cooling power of ambient air
- keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
- make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- make the effort — try
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
- novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- 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.
- 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
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock