14-letter words containing o, r, k
- knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- know backwards — to understand completely
- know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- know the score — understand the situation
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- kyoto protocol — climate change agreement
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- like clockwork — the mechanism of a clock.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- mark-to-market — denoting a system that values assets according to their current market price
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
- mercator track — a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.
- micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
- migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- milking parlor — a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
- mormon cricket — a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- naked mole rat — a nearly hairless rodent, Heterocephalus glaber, of eastern African dry steppes and savannas, having two protruding upper and lower front teeth and living entirely underground in colonies, based on a single breeding female and specialized workers of both sexes.
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- network closet — (networking) The place where network hardware (other than cabling) is installed. The space should be used primarily for storage, be dry, and have electricity available. Since network equipment rarely needs attention once installed and tested, the network closet can have limited accessibility.
- network number — network address