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16-letter words containing k, e, d

  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • restricted stock — unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.
  • ring-necked duck — a North American scauplike duck, Aythya collaris, having a chestnut ring around the neck.
  • rocket-propelled — using rocket power as the chief motive force.
  • rolled paperwork — a form of decoration on small objects, such as boxes, in which a design is made up of tiny rolls of paper cut crossways and laid together: popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • shake one's head — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
  • shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • solid state disk — (SSD) Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time.
  • speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
  • stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • take to the road — to start traveling; set out
  • the dojo toolkit — (library, programming)   A modular, open source JavaScript library. Dojo is designed for easy development of JavaScript- or AJAX based applications and websites. It is supported by the Dojo Foundation, which is sponsored by IBM, AOL, Sun and others. The name is from the Japanese term meaning "place of the way", used for a formal place of training.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
  • three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
  • tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
  • tool builder kit — (tool)   (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
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