Words Containing: A,O,K,E,S

• A valve in the hull of a vessel used to let in water, either to clean the bilges, flood a ballast tank, or scuttle the vessel

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

• Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.

• Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.

• A tax on wood.

• A knockout (in boxing).

• To knock someone out, or render them unconscious or senseless.

• An initial soak.

• A preparation used in such a soak.

• A cycle of a washing machine during which this occurs.

• To soak in advance.

• To soak laundry in cold water prior to washing, sometimes with the addition of a biological or other preparation.

• the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)