15-letter words containing k, y
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- take the mickey — mock
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
- think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
- to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
- you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering