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15-letter words containing c, l, a, k

  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • 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
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • 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.
  • lackadaisically — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • mackerel breeze — a strong breeze
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
  • molecular clock — the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
  • 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.
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • 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.
  • 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
  • overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • 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.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
  • pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
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