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

  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
  • make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
  • molecular clock — the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
  • neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
  • on an even keel — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • point-and-click — of or denoting an interface with which the user typically interacts by using a mouse to move the cursor and then clicking on a screen object.
  • poke mullock at — to ridicule
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