9-letter words containing o, k, l, a
- raskolnik — 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.
- revokable — that may be revoked.
- road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rock fall — a fall of loose rocks
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- royal oak — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- satyaloka — the highest heaven, where Brahma and Sarasvati live with Brahmins.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- silky oak — any of several trees of the Australian genus Grevillea, esp G. robusta, having divided leaves, smooth glossy wood, and showy clusters of orange, red, or white flowers: cultivated in the tropics as shade trees: family Proteaceae
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- snake oil — any of various liquid concoctions of questionable medical value sold as an all-purpose curative, especially by traveling hucksters.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- soakingly — so as to saturate or soak
- soda lake — a salt lake that has a high content of sodium salts, esp chlorides and sulphates
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- take hold — become established
- talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk into — persuade
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
- talkathon — an unusually long speech or discussion, especially on a matter of public interest, as a Congressional filibuster or a televised question-and-answer session with a political candidate.
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
- town talk — the usual talk, gossip, or rumors, as in a village or town.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- volksraad — the legislative assembly of the Boer republics in South Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
- walk into — If you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without expecting to, especially because you have been careless.
- walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
- walk-down — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.