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15-letter words containing c, l, o, k, i, e

  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • 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.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • 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.
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
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