15-letter words containing i, k, e
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
- good-king-henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- hard disk drive — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- 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.
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
- 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.
- 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.
- hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
- ice-cream maker — a device used in making ice cream
- in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- ink-jet printer — a machine that prints using a method of printing streams of electrically charged ink
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- intelligent key — (database) A relational database key which depends wholly on one or more other columns in the same table. An intelligent key might be identified for implementation convenience, where there is no good candidate key. For example, if the three-letter initials of a group of people are known to be unique but only their full names are recorded, a three letter acronym for their names (e.g. John Doe Smith -> JDS) would be an intelligent key. Intelligent keys are a Bad Thing because it is hard to guarantee uniqueness, and if the value on which an intelligent key depends changes then the key must either stay the same, creating an inconsistency within the containing table, or change, requiring changes to all other tables in which it appears as a foreign key. The correct solution is to use a surrogate key.
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- 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.
- 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
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
- 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)
- kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
- kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- keep faith with — If you keep faith with someone you have made a promise to or something you believe in, you continue to support them even when it is difficult to do so.
- 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.
- kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard