12-letter words containing y, o, k
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stock symbol — A stock symbol is a standard abbreviation for a publicly traded stock.
- stoney creek — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- take pity on — show compassion, mercy
- the kootenay — a lake in British Columbia: fed chiefly by the Kootenay; drains into the Columbia River
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
- tschaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- turkey shoot — a marksmanship contest, usually at a festive gathering, in which rifles are fired at moving targets, originally live turkeys.
- turkey-shoot — a marksmanship contest, usually at a festive gathering, in which rifles are fired at moving targets, originally live turkeys.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- video jockey — a person who plays, announces, and comments on videocassette recordings, as on a music video broadcast or at a discotheque.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- yamoussoukro — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking
- youth worker — A youth worker is a person whose job involves providing support and social activities for young people, especially young people from poor backgrounds.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.