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15-letter words containing a, n, k

  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take one's ease — to relax and be comfortable
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
  • terminal market — an organized market in a city into which large quantities of agricultural produce, livestock, etc., are shipped for distribution and sale.
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
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