15-letter words containing o, k, l, a
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- crackback block — a block in which a player, usually a wide receiver, angles back sharply towards the middle of the field and blocks a defensive player from the side
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
- hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
- kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)