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15-letter words containing r, a, n, k, i

  • 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 king's ransom — If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • al iskandariyah — Alexandria , Egypt
  • al-iskandariyah — Arabic name of Alexandria.
  • alkylating drug — any of various potentially cytotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances: used therapeutically to destroy cells, especially proliferating cancer cells.
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • 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
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • 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.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • bookmaking firm — an organization that accepts bets from gamblers and pays out winnings
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • breaking strain — the amount of strain that, if applied to a particular material, will cause it to break
  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • california mink — cacomistle.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • charles dickensCharles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • 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.
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • 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
  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • 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.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.

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