15-letter words containing e, n, k
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- data link level — data link layer
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
- 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
- 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
- economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
- eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- emergency brake — hand brake in car
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- engagement book — couple
- english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- filemaker, inc. — (company) The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
- finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.