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15-letter words containing c, h, e, k

  • 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.
  • field chickweed — starry grasswort.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • frederick henry — 1584–1647, prince of Orange and count of Nassau; son of William (I) the Silent
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • french knickers — women's wide-legged underpants
  • 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.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • grammar checker — a utility that allows the user to check a document for errors of grammar
  • have a smack at — to attempt
  • have a whack at — to aim a blow at
  • 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.
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • 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
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • 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.
  • keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
  • kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
  • 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.
  • kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
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