17-letter words containing k, i, c
- clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
- clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
- cocktail waitress — a woman who serves in a bar or cocktail lounge
- commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
- common storksbill — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, having pink or reddish-purple flowers and fruits with a beaklike process
- congo-kordofanian — Niger-Kordofanian
- content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
- contingent worker — a temporary or contract worker, especially one hired for one task or project.
- cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
- critical thinking — disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.
- crude oil cracker — A crude oil cracker is the part of a refinery and the equipment used for changing crude oil to its fractions, using heat and pressure.
- dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
- devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake
- dictionary attack — an attempt to hack into a computer or network by submitting every word in a dictionary as a possible password
- dictionary-making — the work or activity of compiling dictionaries
- dirt track racing — motorcycle racing on a dirt track
- double track line — a railway line with double track
- economic blockade — an embargo on trade with a country, esp one which prohibits receipt of exports from that country, with the intention of disrupting the country's economy
- egyptian brackets — (programming, humour) A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
- elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
- fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
- fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
- fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
- floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
- frederick pollock — Sir Frederick, 1845–1937, English legal scholar and author.
- frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
- get a kick out of — enjoy, take pleasure in
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
- high muckety-muck — high muck-a-muck
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- homework exercise — an exercise that is set as homework
- horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
- humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
- hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
- icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
- intelligence work — spying
- intent to package — (Debian) (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.
- internet backbone — (communications, networking) High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points (NAPs). The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
- jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations