14-letter words containing a, c, k, n, o
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
- holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- internal clock — biological clock.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
- know backwards — to understand completely
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- long-neck clam — soft-shell clam.
- longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- make allowance — to take circumstances, limitations, etc. into consideration
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- 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.
- one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
- ordinary stock — British. common stock.