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15-letter words containing k, h, a, t, r

  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
  • on/off the mark — If something is off the mark, it is inaccurate or incorrect. If it is on the mark, it is accurate or correct.
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
  • phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • play the market — to speculate on a stock exchange
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sharp as a tack — intelligent, quick witted
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the earthshaker — Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
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