0%

15-letter words containing t, r, e, k

  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
  • 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
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
  • 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
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • 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.
  • farmers' market — a market or group of stalls and booths where farmers and sometimes other vendors sell their products directly to consumers.
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
  • for the sake of — for the good of
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
  • freak of nature — a person or animal that is born or grows with abnormal physical features.
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
  • great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
  • 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.
  • grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • 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 ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • ink-jet printer — a machine that prints using a method of printing streams of electrically charged ink
  • internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • 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.
  • jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • katathermometer — a thermometer used to measure the cooling power of ambient air
  • 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.
  • kernel sentence — a simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences: The sentence “Good tests are short” is made from two kernel sentences: (1) “Tests are short.” (2) “(The) tests are good.”.
  • kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • keynote speaker — sb: gives opening speech
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?