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11-letter words containing o, a, k, r

  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • crocus sack — a burlap bag.
  • croker sack — a bag made of burlap or similar material
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
  • damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
  • dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
  • dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
  • dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
  • dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • diskography — discography.
  • do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
  • doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
  • earth smoke — fumitory.
  • electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • farm worker — a person who is hired to work on a farm
  • farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
  • fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
  • floral park — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
  • framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • frankenfood — (colloquial, derogatory) genetically modified food.
  • frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
  • fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
  • gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • glove maker — someone who makes gloves
  • go crook at — to rebuke or upbraid
  • goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
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