15-letter words containing i, l, k, e
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
- 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.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
- electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- field chickweed — starry grasswort.
- filemaker, inc. — (company) The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
- fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- 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.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- 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
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- 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.
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- 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
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- 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.
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.