7-letter words that end in k
- obelisk — a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
- odalisk — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- offpeak — Alternative form of off-peak.
- okhotsk — Sea of, an arm of the N Pacific enclosed by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin, and the Russian Federation in Asia. 582,000 sq. mi. (1,507,380 sq. km); greatest depth, 10,554 feet (3217 meters).
- olicook — doughnut (def 1).
- olykoek — doughnut.
- on deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- on-peak — peak1 (def 17).
- on-task — focused on the job at hand
- oobleck — A mixture of cornstarch and water with unusual physical properties.
- opgefok — damaged; bungled
- ostmark — (formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
- outback — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- outbark — to bark more than or louder than
- outbulk — to exceed in bulk
- outcook — to cook more than or better than
- outkick — to exceed in kicking
- outlook — the view or prospect from a particular place.
- outrank — to have a higher rank than: A major outranks a captain in the army.
- outrock — to outdo in rocking
- outsulk — to outdo in sulking
- outtalk — to outdo or overcome in talking.
- outtask — (of an organization) to assign (a task or tasks) to staff outside the organization
- outwalk — to outdo in walking; walk faster or farther than.
- outwick — to move (a curling stone) so that it strikes against the outer side of a stone that has already been played and turns towards the tee or (of a curling stone) to strike another stone in this manner
- outwork — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- paddock — Archaic. a frog or toad.
- padlock — a portable or detachable lock with a pivoted or sliding shackle that can be passed through a link, ring, staple, or the like.
- parrock — a small field or enclosure; a pen
- partook — simple past tense of partake.
- patrick — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- payback — the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
- pazyryk — the site of 40 wood-lined pit tombs c500–c300 b.c. in the Altai Mountains of central Asia, containing the tattooed bodies of nomadic chieftains of the eastern Steppes and grave goods all well-preserved in a frozen state.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peptalk — to give a pep talk to (a person, group, etc.).
- perjink — prim or finicky
- petcock — a small valve or faucet, as for draining off excess or waste material from the cylinder of a steam engine or an internal-combustion engine.
- piddock — any bivalve mollusk of the genus Pholas or the family Pholadidae, having long, ovate shells and burrowing in soft rock, wood, etc.
- pillock — idiot
- pin oak — an oak, Quercus palustris, characterized by the pyramidal manner of growth of its branches and deeply pinnatifid leaves.
- pinnock — any of various small songbirds such as the dunnock
- pinwork — (in the embroidery of needlepoint lace) crescent-shaped stitches raised from the surface of the design.
- pishpek — former name (until 1926) of Bishkek.
- podolsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- pollock — Also called saithe. a North Atlantic food fish, Pollachius virens, of the cod family.
- popsock — a knee-length nylon sock, worn under trousers
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- porlock — to interrupt or intrude at an awkward moment