15-letter words containing k, o, r, n
- jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- 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.
- kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
- keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
- keynote speaker — sb: gives opening speech
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knock-for-knock — designating an agreement between vehicle insurers that in the event of an accident each will pay for the damage to the vehicle insured with him or her without attempting to establish blame for the accident
- kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
- lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- nark at someone — to nag someone
- network address — (networking) 1. The network portion of an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also subnet address, Internet Registry. 2. (Or "net address") An electronic mail address on the network. In the 1980s this might have been a bang path but now (1997) it is nearly always a domain address. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. science-fiction fandom). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also sitename, domainist.
- network segment — (networking) A part of an Ethernet or other network, on which all message traffic is common to all nodes, i.e. it is broadcast from one node on the segment and received by all others. This is normally because the segment is a single continuous conductor, though it may include repeaters(?). Since all nodes share the physical medium, collision detection or some other protocol is required to determine whether a message was transmitted without interference from other nodes. The receiving node inspects the destination address of a packet to tell if it was (one of) the intended recipient(s). Communication between nodes on different segments is via one or more routers.
- neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- new york minute — a very short time.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- newark-on-trent — a town in N central England, in Nottinghamshire. Pop: 35 454 (2001)
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- no-smoking room — A no-smoking room in a hotel is a room intended for people who do not want to smoke.
- norfolk terrier — one of an English breed of small short-legged hunting terriers having a straight, wiry, red, black and tan, or grizzle coat, and dropped ears that distinguish it from the Norwich terrier.
- north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- notour bankrupt — a bankrupt who has failed to discharge his or her debts within the days of grace allowed by the court
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.