15-letter words containing k, r, o
- to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- truck (on) down — to walk in a carefree, leisurely manner; stroll
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
- unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- walk (all) over — to defeat overwhelmingly
- weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
- work experience — temporary job placement
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- work/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
- worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
- working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
- working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area