14-letter words containing o, k, d
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- deep hack mode — hack mode
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadokokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- dimethylketone — acetone.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disk mirroring — (hardware, storage) Use of one or more mirrors of a hard disk.
- dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- do one's block — to become angry
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
- doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
- door-key child — latchkey child.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
- for god's sake — Some people use expressions such as for God's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness sake, or for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The expressions 'for God's sake' and 'for Christ's sake' could cause offence.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
- garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
- goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- hollow-cheeked — having sunken cheeks, as from thinness
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- inward-looking — person