15-letter words containing c, a, s, k
- 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
- 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
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- 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.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- research worker — investigative scientist
- rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- see the back of — to be rid of
- sharp as a tack — intelligent, quick witted
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shockwave flash — flash
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- slap and tickle — sexual play
- social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
- social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
- spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler