14-letter words containing a, b, n, k
- lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- make a bargain — to agree on terms
- make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- naval barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
- okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
- on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
- pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
- paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
- pipeline break — (architecture) (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
- platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- ragnar lodbrok — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and of accounts in the Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus: also associated with the story of Sigurd and the Volsungs.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
- saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
- screen blanker — screen saver
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- to break ranks — If you say that a member of a group or organization breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or organization.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.