16-letter words containing c, o, n, a, k
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
- stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
- stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
- stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
- stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.