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13-letter words containing o, k, e, l

  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
  • coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
  • compiler jock — A programmer who specialises in writing compilers.
  • comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
  • cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
  • dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
  • dimethylketol — acetoin.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-booked — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
  • endoskeletons — Plural form of endoskeleton.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • fellow worker — someone you work with
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
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