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15-letter words containing u, k, i, p

  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • ballpark figure — approximate number
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • computer cookie — HTTP cookie
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
  • kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • 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.
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • situs picketing — common situs picketing.
  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
  • you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering

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