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.