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15-letter words containing c, a, s, e, k

  • 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.
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • 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.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • 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.
  • have a smack at — to attempt
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • 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.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • 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.
  • local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • 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.
  • pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
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