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15-letter words containing k, a, g

  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • emergency brake — hand brake in car
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • engagement book — couple
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
  • 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
  • grammar checker — a utility that allows the user to check a document for errors of grammar
  • great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
  • great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
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