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17-letter words containing c, r, a, k

  • congo-kordofanian — Niger-Kordofanian
  • content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • cracked gas dryer — A cracked gas dryer is a piece of equipment for removing water vapor from natural gas, for example, using adsorbers and membranes.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • critical thinking — disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.
  • crude oil cracker — A crude oil cracker is the part of a refinery and the equipment used for changing crude oil to its fractions, using heat and pressure.
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • dictionary attack — an attempt to hack into a computer or network by submitting every word in a dictionary as a possible password
  • dictionary-making — the work or activity of compiling dictionaries
  • dirt track racing — motorcycle racing on a dirt track
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
  • floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
  • frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • hard rock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • internet backbone — (communications, networking)   High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points (NAPs). The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
  • jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • karelian republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia between the White Sea and Lakes Onega and Ladoga. Capital: Petrozavodsk. Pop: 716 700 (2002). Area: 172 400 sq km (66 560 sq miles)
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
  • make a difference — have a significant impact
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