14-letter words containing k, e, y, c
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
- mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
- one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
- oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
- package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
- recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- salt lake city — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
- schottky noise — shot effect.
- scratch monkey — (humour) As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
- security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
- self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
- try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.