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15-letter words containing o, k, e, c

  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • risk one's neck — to take a great risk
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
  • schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
  • take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • ten-weeks stock — a stock, Matthiola incana annua, of the mustard family, having spikes of white, lilac, or crimson flowers.
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
  • walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
  • watch the clock — If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
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