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15-letter words containing k

  • 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
  • csk corporation — (company)   The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data link level — data link layer
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
  • docking station — device: charger
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dvorak keyboard — a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
  • 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.
  • elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
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