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15-letter words containing o, r, s, k

  • fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
  • for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
  • for the sake of — for the good of
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • keep one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • keynote speaker — sb: gives opening speech
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • nark at someone — to nag someone
  • network address — (networking)   1. The network portion of an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also subnet address, Internet Registry. 2. (Or "net address") An electronic mail address on the network. In the 1980s this might have been a bang path but now (1997) it is nearly always a domain address. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. science-fiction fandom). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also sitename, domainist.
  • network segment — (networking)   A part of an Ethernet or other network, on which all message traffic is common to all nodes, i.e. it is broadcast from one node on the segment and received by all others. This is normally because the segment is a single continuous conductor, though it may include repeaters(?). Since all nodes share the physical medium, collision detection or some other protocol is required to determine whether a message was transmitted without interference from other nodes. The receiving node inspects the destination address of a packet to tell if it was (one of) the intended recipient(s). Communication between nodes on different segments is via one or more routers.
  • neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • no-smoking room — A no-smoking room in a hotel is a room intended for people who do not want to smoke.
  • north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
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