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15-letter words containing d, i, k

  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • field chickweed — starry grasswort.
  • finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • frederick henry — 1584–1647, prince of Orange and count of Nassau; son of William (I) the Silent
  • frederick northChristopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • frederick soddyFrederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • good-king-henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • 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.
  • kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
  • kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
  • knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
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