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10-letter words containing o, k, l, a

  • nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
  • oil tanker — a large ship specifically designed for transporting crude oil in bulk across the oceans.
  • outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
  • outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
  • oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
  • planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
  • play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
  • playbroker — play agent.
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
  • poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
  • provokable — able to be provoked
  • radio link — radio communication setup
  • raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
  • rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
  • rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
  • rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
  • ropewalker — a ropedancer.
  • royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
  • sailorlike — resembling a sailor
  • salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
  • scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
  • shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
  • shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
  • soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
  • soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
  • stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
  • take-along — intended or suitable for taking along, as on a trip: take-along snacks for long car trips.
  • talk about — expressing disgust or emphasis
  • talk radio — a radio format featuring talk shows and listener call-ins.
  • talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
  • talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talking of — You can use the expression talking of to introduce a new topic that you want to discuss, and to link it to something that has already been mentioned.
  • talking-to — a scolding.
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • tool maker — a person who specializes in the production or reconditioning of precision tools, cutters, etc
  • tool-maker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
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