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13-letter words containing o, a, k, c

  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social skills — ability to interact
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • staccato mark — (in music notation) a dot, wedge, or vertical stroke over or under a note to indicate that it should be played staccato.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • tick-tack-toe — a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • truck tractor — tractor (def 2).
  • truck-tractor — a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
  • tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • wacky tobacky — marijuana.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
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