15-letter words containing i, c, h, k, a
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- 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.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- take the mickey — mock
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- 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.
- what's cooking? — what's happening?
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.