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

  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydroxyketone — a ketone containing a hydroxyl group.
  • invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • kangaroo care — a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • kangaroo vine — an Australian vine, Cissus antarctica, of the grape family, having shiny, leathery leaves.
  • karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
  • katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kernel parlog — (language)   A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • kinross-shire — a former county of E central Scotland: became part of Tayside region in 1975 and part of Perth and Kinross in 1996
  • knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • make or break — either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy.
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