16-letter words containing k, o, t, a, i, n
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- lookout mountain — a mountain ridge in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama: a battle of the Civil War fought here, near Chattanooga, Tenn. 1863; highest point, 2126 feet (648 meters).
- make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
- network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
- not miss a trick — to be very alert
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
- pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
- pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- put a sock in it — be quiet!
- rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- regional network — mid-level network
- reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
- san antonio peak — a mountain in S California: highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Bernardino. 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
- seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
- stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
- stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- 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
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- unknown quantity — mathematics: amount not known
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.