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13-letter words containing r, o, c, k, s, e

  • 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.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • 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.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • 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.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • seiko rc-4000 — A wristwatch with an EIA-232 interface. A clip fitted round the watch and made electrical contact. This clip had a socket for a stereo style jack lead the other end of which was a 25-way D-type connector. The lead allowed you to enter phone numbers etc. into the watch without having to play with tiny buttons. It also meant if the battery on your watch ran out you could restore the data without having to type it all in again. It was around the era of the 8-bit home computers like the Spectrum, BBC Microcomputer, Apple II, C64 - the 1980s.
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
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