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15-letter words containing n, e, c, k, l, a

  • 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.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • 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).
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • 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.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • 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.
  • nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
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