11-letter words containing t, r, o, k, e
- killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
- kilometrage — The total distance, in kilometres, travelled.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knot garden — an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- know better — be sufficiently wise
- koeksisters — Plural form of koeksister.
- kort nozzle — a cylindrical fitting around a propeller, tapered inward toward the stern to increase thrust and maneuverability.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- leukotriene — a lipid, C 20 H 30 O 3 , produced by white blood cells in an immune response to antigens, that contributes to allergic asthma and inflammatory reactions.
- link editor — linker
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- market boat — a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
- market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- monkey sort — bogo-sort
- netherstock — a stocking
- non-striker — a person or thing that strikes.
- nonmarketed — Unmarketed.
- nonstrikers — Plural form of nonstriker.
- north korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- not cricket — If you say that someone's behaviour is not cricket, you mean that they have not behaved fairly.
- note broker — a broker who buys and sells commercial paper.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- oathbreaker — Someone who breaks an oath.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- oktoberfest — a traditional festival held each October in Munich, Germany.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- overstocked — containing too many fish