15-letter words containing t, u, c, k
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
- kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- 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.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
- 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.
- 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.
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
- musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
- okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- peak production — the maximum production
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
- 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.
- pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- pocket computer — palmtop
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- 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.
- situs picketing — common situs picketing.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- strike it lucky — to have some good luck
- stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
- suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.