9-letter words containing o, k, l, a
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- coal sack — a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- core leak — memory leak
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- earcockle — A disease of wheat in which the ears blacken and contract.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- flake off — become detached in thin pieces
- flake out — flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.
- flake-out — flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.
- flat knot — reef knot.
- floodmark — A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
- folk mass — a liturgical mass in which traditional music is replaced by folk music.
- folk tale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.