15-letter words containing o, s, k, e
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
- eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
- electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
- fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
- 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.
- give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- 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.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- 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
- keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- 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.
- keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
- keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
- keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- 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
- keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.