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

  • north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • pink-shirt book — (publication)   "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • pressure cooker — a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
  • proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
  • quotation marks — 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.
  • rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • rimsky-korsakov — Nicolai Andreevich [nyi-kuh-lahy uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kəˈlaɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1844–1908, Russian composer.
  • risk one's neck — to take a great risk
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • seasonal worker — a worker who is employed for a particular period of the year, such as harvest, or Christmas
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
  • shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
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