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15-letter words containing n, k

  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • clock frequency — clock rate
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • 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
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • 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
  • 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
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • 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.
  • crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
  • creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
  • crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data link level — data link layer
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • 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
  • 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
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
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