14-letter words containing o, r, k
- neural network — artificial neural network
- neuromarketing — the process of researching the brain patterns of consumers to reveal their responses to particular advertisements and products before developing new advertising campaigns and branding techniques
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- norfolk island — an island in the S Pacific between New Caledonia and New Zealand: a territory of Australia. 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- ockham's razor — Occam's razor.
- on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- on the knocker — promptly; at once
- one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
- ordinary stock — British. common stock.
- orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
- out of the ark — very old; out of date
- oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
- parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- pop one's cork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
- printing works — an establishment in which printing is carried out
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- protocol stack — (protocol) A layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. Each intermediate protocol layer uses the layer below it to provide a service to the layer above. The OSI seven layer model is an attempt to provide a standard framework within which to describe protocol stacks.
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- ragnar lodbrok — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and of accounts in the Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus: also associated with the story of Sigurd and the Volsungs.
- railroad track — railway line
- railway worker — railroad employee