15-letter words containing d, e, a, k, i
- marek's disease — a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.
- milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- packet-switched — packet switching
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- peak production — the maximum production
- pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- 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.
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
- senkaku islands — a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea; claimed by China and Japan
- sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
- slap and tickle — sexual play
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
- take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- track and field — athletics events
- track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
- weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area