14-letter words containing k, u, o
- make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
- make a muck of — to ruin or spoil
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
- mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- network number — network address
- neural network — artificial neural network
- neuromarketing — the process of researching the brain patterns of consumers to reveal their responses to particular advertisements and products before developing new advertising campaigns and branding techniques
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- on the lookout — keeping watch
- out of the ark — very old; out of date
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- rough as sacks — uncouth
- ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- smokeless fuel — fuel which burns without producing smoke
- smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
- st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- stock solution — a concentrated chemical solution, diluted before using.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- strike through — cross out
- sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun
- surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
- surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- surgeon's knot — a knot resembling a reef knot, used by surgeons for tying ligatures and the like.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- take it out of — to sap the energy or vitality of
- take it out on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- take the count — to be unable to continue after a count of ten
- takeout double — informatory double.
- talk about sth — You can say talk about before mentioning a particular expression or situation, when you mean that something is a very striking or clear example of that expression or situation.
- the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur