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15-letter words containing d, k

  • 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
  • partners---desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • 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.
  • point-and-click — of or denoting an interface with which the user typically interacts by using a mouse to move the cursor and then clicking on a screen object.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • 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.
  • quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
  • quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • rack-and-pinion — of or relating to a mechanism in which a rack engages a pinion: rack-and-pinion steering.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
  • 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.
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • 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.
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
  • scotch woodcock — toast spread with anchovy paste and topped with loosely scrambled eggs.
  • 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.
  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • speeding ticket — notice of traffic violation
  • spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
  • 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
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
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