13-letter words containing t, o, k, l, a
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- nannoplankton — the smallest of the microplankton; the aquatic organisms that can pass through fine mesh plankton nets.
- national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- 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
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
- tillamook bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the NW coast of Oregon: resort center. 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walk out with — to court or be courted by
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.