15-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- 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.
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- 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.
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- 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.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
- lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
- 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.
- leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
- leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
- 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.
- long-case clock — tall-case clock.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- 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.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- 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.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- not care a fuck — not to care at all