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13-letter words containing o, k, l

  • blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book of kells — Book of Kells.
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
  • coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • compiler jock — A programmer who specialises in writing compilers.
  • comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • control stick — the lever by which a pilot controls the lateral and longitudinal movements of an aircraft
  • corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
  • cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
  • crayola books — (publication)   A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
  • dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
  • digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
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