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13-letter words containing o, k, a

  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • 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.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • 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.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • 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 fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • 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.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • hognose snake — any harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, the several species having an upturned snout and noted for flattening the head or playing dead when disturbed.
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
  • hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
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