15-letter words containing i, k, o, n, c
- airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
- antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
- back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
- backup rotation — (operating system) Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
- black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
- black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
- buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
- california mink — cacomistle.
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- chao k'uang-yin — (Tʾai Tsu) 927–976 a.d, Chinese emperor 960–976: founder of the Sung dynasty.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
- conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
- 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
- cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
- 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 bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- 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
- 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.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- docking station — device: charger
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
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