16-letter words containing k, o, c
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
- dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
- dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
- discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
- dome of the rock — a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
- emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
- exclamation mark — (character) The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
- feedback control — (electronics) A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
- ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
- folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
- formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
- green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
- hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
- hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
- information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
- insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
- j. random hacker — (jargon) /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
- kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
- kaposi's sarcoma — a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
- karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
- keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kepler telescope — astronomical telescope.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
- kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- labtech notebook — (tool, product) Commercial data aquisition software.