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15-letter words containing a, k, i

  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • 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
  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • california mink — cacomistle.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • canadian whisky — a blended whisky made in Canada from rye and other grains
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • cashier's check — A cashier's check is one which a cashier signs and which is drawn on a bank's own funds.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • chao k'uang-yin — (Tʾai Tsu) 927–976 a.d, Chinese emperor 960–976: founder of the Sung dynasty.
  • characteristick — Obsolete form of characteristic.
  • charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chiang kai-shek — original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
  • chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
  • chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
  • crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
  • crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data link level — data link layer
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
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