13-letter words containing o, k, e, d
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- one of a kind — sb or sth unique
- one-of-a-kind — unique
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
- ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
- reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
- roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
- severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
- shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
- smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
- smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
- standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- take on board — be receptive
- take the road — to begin a journey or tour
- take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
- takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
- ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforeskinned — circumcised