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14-letter words containing t, r, o, k

  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
  • crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
  • electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
  • electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • get/go to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hyperkeratosis — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
  • hyperkeratotic — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • internal clock — biological clock.
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
  • kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
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