16-letter words containing a, c, k, t, o, n
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
- nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
- not miss a trick — to be very alert
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
- packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
- pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
- pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- put a sock in it — be quiet!
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
- stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
- stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
- stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.