15-letter words containing t, i, n, o, k
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- 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.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- 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.
- 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.
- make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- make mention of — allude to
- make no mistake — believe me, let me assure you
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- motion sickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from stimulation by motion of the semicircular canals of the ear during travel by car, plane, etc.
- mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
- narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
- new york minute — a very short time.
- norfolk terrier — one of an English breed of small short-legged hunting terriers having a straight, wiry, red, black and tan, or grizzle coat, and dropped ears that distinguish it from the Norwich terrier.
- north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- peak production — the maximum production
- 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
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- pink-shirt book — (publication) "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- 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.
- precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes