15-letter words containing o, k, e, l
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
- electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
- go to the block — to be beheaded
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris