16-letter words containing o, k, l, a
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- out like a light — If someone goes out like a light, they fall asleep or become unconscious very quickly or immediately.
- parkerhouse roll — a yeast roll shaped by folding over a flat, round piece of buttered dough
- plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- rattlesnake root — any of certain composite plants of the genus Prenanthes, whose roots or tubers have been regarded as a remedy for snake bites, as P. serpentaria or P. alba.
- razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
- regional network — mid-level network
- rolled paperwork — a form of decoration on small objects, such as boxes, in which a design is made up of tiny rolls of paper cut crossways and laid together: popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- solid state disk — (SSD)
Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time. - south lake tahoe — a city in E California.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
- stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
- stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
- symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
- take (to) flight — to run away; flee
- take holy orders — to become ordained
- take one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- take one's leave — to go away; depart
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
- the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
- the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
- to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
- to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.