11-letter words containing o, a, k, c, r
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kilocalorie — one thousand small calories. Abbreviation: kcal. Also called Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie. Compare calorie (def 1a).
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mock orange — Also called syringa. any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Philadelphus, of the saxifrage family, especially P. coronarius, a widely cultivated species having fragrant white flowers.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
- overpackage — to package excessively
- peacock ore — bornite.
- pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.