15-letter words containing t, o, m, a, k
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- postman's knock — a children's party game in which a kiss is exchanged for a pretend letter
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- smoky mountains — Great Smoky Mountains
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
- take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- the working man — working class people collectively
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.