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15-letter words containing k, o, t

  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
  • computer cookie — HTTP cookie
  • conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
  • consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
  • counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
  • docking station — device: charger
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • 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
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
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