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15-letter words containing i, k, e

  • certified check — A certified check is a check that is guaranteed by a bank, because the bank has set aside sufficient money in the account.
  • characteristick — Obsolete form of characteristic.
  • charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chiang kai-shek — original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
  • chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
  • chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
  • chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • computer cookie — HTTP cookie
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
  • counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • 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
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • 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
  • 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.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • 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.
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