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15-letter words containing a, s, k, n

  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make no mistake — believe me, let me assure you
  • make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • make one's move — to pass from one place or position to another.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
  • market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nark at someone — to nag someone
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • network address — (networking)   1. The network portion of an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also subnet address, Internet Registry. 2. (Or "net address") An electronic mail address on the network. In the 1980s this might have been a bang path but now (1997) it is nearly always a domain address. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. science-fiction fandom). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also sitename, domainist.
  • neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
  • partners---desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • postman's knock — a children's party game in which a kiss is exchanged for a pretend letter
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • risk assessment — the evaluation of the possible risks in a product,situation, activity or course of action
  • risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sanitary napkin — a pad of absorbent material, as cotton, worn by women during menstruation to absorb the uterine flow.
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
  • save one's skin — to avoid harm or injury; esp., to escape death
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • seasonal worker — a worker who is employed for a particular period of the year, such as harvest, or Christmas
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