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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.
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