15-letter words containing c, o, k, n, e
- make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- 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.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- motion sickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from stimulation by motion of the semicircular canals of the ear during travel by car, plane, etc.
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- 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.
- 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.
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- 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.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- peak production — the maximum production
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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
- precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- risk one's neck — to take a great risk
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- 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
- 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.
- smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- ten-weeks stock — a stock, Matthiola incana annua, of the mustard family, having spikes of white, lilac, or crimson flowers.
- terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.