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15-letter words containing h, i, c, k

  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
  • hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
  • 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.
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
  • kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
  • kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
  • kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
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