13-letter words containing o, r, k
- cookie cutter — A cookie cutter is a tool that is used for cutting cookies into a particular shape before you bake them.
- cookie-cutter — having the same configuration or look as many others of a given kind; identical: rows of cookie-cutter houses.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- counterstroke — a counterattack
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- 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.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- crotch rocket — a high-speed, high-performance motorcycle characterized by an aerodynamic body shape which requires or encourages the driver to lean forward
- cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
- 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.
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
- drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- dyer's rocket — weld2 .
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.