15-letter words containing c, r, a, k, e
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
- classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
- clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
- cream-crackered — exhausted
- creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- emergency brake — hand brake in car
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- filemaker, inc. — (company) The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
- fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk