15-letter words containing s, k, e, t, c
- acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
- airmail sticker — a sticker that is put on airmail letters to make sure they are not sent by surface mail
- akinetic mutism — a state of apparent alertness with normal eye movements but no speech or other voluntary motion, usually due to a stroke.
- antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- babinski effect — the reflex curling upwards of the toes (instead of inwards) when the sole of the foot is stroked, normal in infants below the age of two but a pathological condition in adults
- 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.
- backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
- 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.
- berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
- black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
- black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
- brackett series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- 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.
- bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
- camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
- characteristick — Obsolete form of characteristic.
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
- cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
- close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
- 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.
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- 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.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
- culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- delmonico steak — club steak
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disk controller — (hardware, storage) (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
- eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
- electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
- electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
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