11-letter words containing o, a, k, c
- quail clock — a clock that announces the hours by a sound resembling that of a quail.
- 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.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- 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.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- 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.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- 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.
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
- storm track — the path followed by the center of a cyclonic storm.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- take action — act, do sth practical
- take notice — listen, heed
- take office — come to power
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- track shoes — light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better grip
- tracker dog — canine trained to detect
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- unshockable — not able to be shocked
- vagal block — the obstruction of vagus nerve impulses by the administration of drugs, a treatment for reducing acid secretion by the stomach.
- vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.