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15-letter words containing k, n, e, s

  • 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
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
  • franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • french knickers — women's wide-legged underpants
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
  • 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.
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • keep one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
  • keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • kernel sentence — a simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences: The sentence “Good tests are short” is made from two kernel sentences: (1) “Tests are short.” (2) “(The) tests are good.”.
  • 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.
  • keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • keynote speaker — sb: gives opening speech
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
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