15-letter words containing a, l, i, c, k, n
- antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
- black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
- 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-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
- blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
- california mink — cacomistle.
- cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- 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.
- cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
- 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
- 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
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- 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.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- 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.
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- 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.
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- 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.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
- pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
- piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- point-and-click — of or denoting an interface with which the user typically interacts by using a mouse to move the cursor and then clicking on a screen object.
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