15-letter words containing i, c, k
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- 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.
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kegel exercises — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- 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.
- keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
- 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.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- 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.
- king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- 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
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lackadaisically — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- 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.
- lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
- liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
- local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- 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.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- motion sickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from stimulation by motion of the semicircular canals of the ear during travel by car, plane, etc.
- mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick