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15-letter words containing h, a, k

  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take the mickey — mock
  • take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the earthshaker — Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • 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 pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
  • watch the clock — If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
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