16-letter words containing l, o, k, i, t
- molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
- network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
- out like a light — If someone goes out like a light, they fall asleep or become unconscious very quickly or immediately.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
- regional network — mid-level network
- rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- solid state disk — (SSD)
Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time. - sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
- stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
- stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
- take (to) flight — to run away; flee
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- the dojo toolkit — (library, programming) A modular, open source JavaScript library. Dojo is designed for easy development of JavaScript- or AJAX based applications and websites. It is supported by the Dojo Foundation, which is sponsored by IBM, AOL, Sun and others. The name is from the Japanese term meaning "place of the way", used for a formal place of training.
- the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
- ticket collector — transport worker who checks tickets
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position