13-letter words containing k, r, o, t
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- know by heart — have memorized
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
- master-stroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- masterstrokes — Plural form of masterstroke.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
- monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- moshe shertok — Moshe [moh-shuh] /ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), Sharett, Moshe.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- north dakotan — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- northern pike — a pike, Esox lucius, of North American and Eurasian waters, valued as a game fish.
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.