15-letter words containing c, h, e, r, k
- 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.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- 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
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
- okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- research worker — investigative scientist
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
- sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
- 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.
- stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
- stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
- straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
- trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.