15-letter words containing c, r, o, a, k, i
- airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
- all-risk policy — An all-risk policy is an insurance policy that covers all loss or damage however it is caused, apart from any stated exceptions.
- amegakaryocytic — Characterized by a lack of megakaryocytes.
- antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
- back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
- backup rotation — (operating system) Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
- calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
- california mink — cacomistle.
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- 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.
- cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
- 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.
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- 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.
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- 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.
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- 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 a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- 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
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
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