12-letter words containing o, k, e, f
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
- heart of oak — a brave person
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kill oneself — to overexert oneself
- kiss of life — medicine
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- make game of — to make fun of; ridicule; mock
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- off the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- office block — a large office building.
- pack of lies — false account
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- take hold of — grasp, seize sth
- take offence — be upset or shocked
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
- trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
- unlooked-for — not expected, anticipated, or foreseen: They were confronted with an unlooked-for situation.
- walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.