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15-letter words containing t, r, o, c, k, e

  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
  • not care a fuck — not to care at all
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
  • on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • 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.
  • pocket computer — palmtop
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
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