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16-letter words containing i, k, o, n, c

  • hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
  • kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
  • lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
  • mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • put a sock in it — be quiet!
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
  • stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
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