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15-letter words containing c, r, a, k, e

  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • 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
  • 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.
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • peak experience — a high point in the life of a self-actualizer, during which the person feels ecstatic and more alive and whole than is usual.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • 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.
  • pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • 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.
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • 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.
  • speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • take a crack at — attempt sth
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
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