15-letter words containing k, i, t
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fishhook cactus — a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
- fork-lift truck — Also called forklift truck, fork truck. a small vehicle with two power-operated prongs at the front that can be slid under heavy loads and then raised for moving and stacking materials in warehouses, shipping depots, etc.
- frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
- hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- ink-jet printer — a machine that prints using a method of printing streams of electrically charged ink
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- intelligent key — (database) A relational database key which depends wholly on one or more other columns in the same table. An intelligent key might be identified for implementation convenience, where there is no good candidate key. For example, if the three-letter initials of a group of people are known to be unique but only their full names are recorded, a three letter acronym for their names (e.g. John Doe Smith -> JDS) would be an intelligent key. Intelligent keys are a Bad Thing because it is hard to guarantee uniqueness, and if the value on which an intelligent key depends changes then the key must either stay the same, creating an inconsistency within the containing table, or change, requiring changes to all other tables in which it appears as a foreign key. The correct solution is to use a surrogate key.
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
- keep faith with — If you keep faith with someone you have made a promise to or something you believe in, you continue to support them even when it is difficult to do so.
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
- kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.