15-letter words containing c, a, n, k, e
- 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
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- delmonico steak — club steak
- diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- emergency brake — hand brake in car
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- 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.
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.