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15-letter words containing a, c, k, t

  • acknowledgement — An acknowledgement is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • airmail sticker — a sticker that is put on airmail letters to make sure they are not sent by surface mail
  • akinetic mutism — a state of apparent alertness with normal eye movements but no speech or other voluntary motion, usually due to a stroke.
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • amegakaryocytic — Characterized by a lack of megakaryocytes.
  • angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • atomic cocktail — an aqueous solution of radioactive substance administered orally as part of the treatment for cancer
  • babinski effect — the reflex curling upwards of the toes (instead of inwards) when the sole of the foot is stroked, normal in infants below the age of two but a pathological condition in adults
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • balanced ticket — a slate of candidates chosen to appeal to a wide range of voters, especially by including members of large regional, ethnic, or religious groups.
  • bank acceptance — a bill of exchange or draft drawn on and endorsed by a bank
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bateau neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • be in the black — If a person or an organization is in the black, they do not owe anyone any money.
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • blackwall hitch — a knot for hooking tackle to the end of a rope, holding fast when pulled but otherwise loose
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
  • brackett series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked

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