15-letter words containing k, p, c
- a cracking pace — If you say that someone or something is moving at a cracking pace, you mean that they are moving very quickly.
- a piece of cake — If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do.
- alaska purchase — purchase of the territory of Alaska by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. Compare Seward's Folly.
- all mockered up — dressed up
- all-risk policy — An all-risk policy is an insurance policy that covers all loss or damage however it is caused, apart from any stated exceptions.
- apartment block — building: flats, apartments
- apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
- back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
- back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
- backup rotation — (operating system) Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
- backup software — (tool, software) Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
- bank acceptance — a bill of exchange or draft drawn on and endorsed by a bank
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
- black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
- black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
- black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
- brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
- brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
- brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
- buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- check protector — checkwriter.
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
- 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
- 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.
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
- crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- 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.
- hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
- hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- 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.
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