15-letter words containing k, o, h, l, r
- alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
- black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- box huckleberry — a nearly prostrate evergreen huckleberry shrub, Gaylussacia brachycera, of central to eastern North America, having short clusters of white or pink flowers and blue fruit.
- break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
- breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
- bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
- culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- 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.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- 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
- keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- 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.
- 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.
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- 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.
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- 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
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
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