15-letter words containing a, s, k, i, c
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- 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.
- 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.
- track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
- wernicke's area — a portion of the left posterior temporal lobe of the brain, involved in the ability to understand words.
- what's cooking? — what's happening?
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.