15-letter words containing k, i, r
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
- classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
- cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- computer cookie — HTTP cookie
- conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
- copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
- counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
- counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
- creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
- crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
- crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
- crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
- drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies