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16-letter words containing r, o, c, k, l

  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • rocket-propelled — using rocket power as the chief motive force.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stockbroker belt — The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • ticket collector — transport worker who checks tickets
  • to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
  • to try your luck — If someone tries their luck at something, they try to succeed at it, often when it is very difficult or there is little chance of success.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.
  • yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
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