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15-letter words containing t, r, i, c, k

  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
  • 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
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • 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
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • fork-lift truck — Also called forklift truck, fork truck. a small vehicle with two power-operated prongs at the front that can be slid under heavy loads and then raised for moving and stacking materials in warehouses, shipping depots, etc.
  • 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.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
  • hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
  • 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.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • 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.
  • liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • 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.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
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