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15-letter words containing a, c, r, k, i

  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • ice-cream maker — a device used in making ice cream
  • in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
  • local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peak experience — a high point in the life of a self-actualizer, during which the person feels ecstatic and more alive and whole than is usual.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
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