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11-letter words containing k, o, r

  • to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
  • top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • track shoes — light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better grip
  • tracker dog — canine trained to detect
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • trelliswork — latticework.
  • trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
  • tretchikoff — Vladimir. 1913–2006, South African painter, born in Russia, known for his kitsch appeal, especially for his much-reproduced Chinese Girl (1950; also known as The Green Lady)
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
  • tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
  • tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
  • turkey cock — the male of the turkey.
  • turkey trot — an early ragtime one-step, popular in the period of World War I
  • turkey-trot — to dance the turkey trot.
  • undercooked — not cooked enough
  • underlooker — a subordinate to the manager, particularly in mining
  • underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
  • underworker — a person who underworks
  • unforeknown — not foreknown
  • unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
  • unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unrevokable — that may be revoked.
  • utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • violinmaker — a person who designs and constructs violins, especially professionally.
  • visualworks — (language)   A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
  • voortrekker — one of the original Afrikaner settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State who migrated from the Cape Colony in the 1830s
  • wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
  • walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • well-worked — that has undergone working.
  • whisk broom — a small, short-handled broom used chiefly to brush clothes.
  • whiskbrooms — Plural form of whiskbroom.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
  • willowbrook — a city in SW California.
  • wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
  • wireworking — the use of wire to make functional or decorative works
  • wizard book — (publication)   Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
  • wokka board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument
  • wonderworks — Plural form of wonderwork.
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