13-letter words containing o, s, k, e
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- master-stroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- masterstrokes — Plural form of masterstroke.
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- moshe shertok — Moshe [moh-shuh] /ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), Sharett, Moshe.
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- network storm — broadcast storm
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
- off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
- people skills — ability to communicate
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.