13-letter words containing o, a, k, r
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- for a kickoff — the beginning of something
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.