15-letter words containing t, a, n, k, c
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- docking station — device: charger
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- 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.
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- 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
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
- 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.
- lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- 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.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- peak production — the maximum production
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
- pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
- piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- point-and-click — of or denoting an interface with which the user typically interacts by using a mouse to move the cursor and then clicking on a screen object.
- postman's knock — a children's party game in which a kiss is exchanged for a pretend letter