16-letter words containing k, i
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- ticket collector — transport worker who checks tickets
- tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
- tokugawa iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
- trick-or-treater — a person, typically a child, who goes from door to door in costume on Halloween asking for candy or other treats
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- unknown quantity — mathematics: amount not known
- unlawful killing — Unlawful killing is used to refer to crimes which involve one person killing another.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
- up with the lark — up early in the morning
- upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
- user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- walking delegate — (formerly) an official appointed by a trade union to go from place to place to investigate working conditions, to ascertain whether union contracts were being fulfilled, and, sometimes, to negotiate contracts between employers and the union.
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
- week in week out — If you say that something happens week in week out, you do not like it because it happens all the time, and never seems to change.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
- william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- windsor, duke of — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- winter crookneck — any of several winter varieties of squash, Cucurbita moschata, having elongated, curved necks.
- wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
- wodzislaw slaski — a city in S Poland.
- work-in-progress — In book-keeping, work-in-progress refers to the monetary value of work that has not yet been paid for because it has not yet been completed.
- wrought ironwork — decorative work in wrought iron
- yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.