12-letter words containing o, s, k
- on the skite — on a drinking spree
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pack of lies — false account
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
- pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- public works — government-funded construction
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.