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16-letter words containing k, e, r, n

  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • computer network — network
  • confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
  • control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
  • cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
  • cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
  • direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do like a dinner — to do for, overpower, or outdo
  • downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
  • erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • feedback control — (electronics)   A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
  • gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
  • green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
  • grey nurse shark — a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
  • guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
  • in working order — fully functioning
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