11-letter words containing k, r, o, n
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- rickrolling — the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink
- rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- roller rink — a rink for roller-skating.
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- skunk works — (usually lowercase). Also, skunk works, skunkworks [skuhngk-wurks] /ˈskʌŋkˌwɜrks/ (Show IPA). Slang. an often secret experimental laboratory or facility for producing innovative products, as in the computer or aerospace field.
- smokescreen — If something that you do or say is a smokescreen, it is intended to hide the truth about your activities or intentions.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- spoken word — The spoken word is used to refer to language expressed in speech, for example in contrast to written texts or music.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
- stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
- stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
- stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tanbark oak — any oak that yields tanbark, especially an evergreen oak, Lithocarpus densiflora, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.