13-letter words containing a, c, k, n
- academic rank — the rank held by members of academic staff having titles such as professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor etc
- acknowledging — Present participle of acknowledg.
- action-packed — full of activities, events and excitement
- advocacy tank — a research and development institution that works to lobby government officials to adopt the institution's viewpoints.
- american fork — a town in central Utah.
- american wake — an all-night farewell party for a person about to emigrate to America
- ammonia clock — an atomic clock based on the frequency of inversion of the ammonia molecule
- anchor pocket — a recess in the bow of a vessel, for housing a stockless anchor.
- ancient greek — the Greek language from the earliest records to about 300 bc, the chief dialect areas of which were Aeolic, Arcadic, Doric, and Ionic (including Attic)
- angle bracket — either of a pair of brackets having the shapes < and >
- aniline black — the black dye obtained by the oxidation of aniline hydrochloride, used for dyeing textiles, especially cotton.
- annular clock — a clock in the form of a vase, ball, etc., having the hours painted on a ring rotating beneath a pointer.
- anti-kickback — a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
- anticlockwise — If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- apple-knocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
- archie bunker — a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
- arkansas city — a city in S Kansas.
- at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
- auction block — Also called block. a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
- back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
- back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
- back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
- back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
- back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
- back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
- backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
- balloon clock — a bracket clock of the late 18th century, having a round dial on a short case with concave sides resting on bracket feet.
- banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- banzai attack — a mass attack of troops, without concern for casualties, as practised by the Japanese in World War II
- basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
- black and tan — a mixture of stout or porter and ale
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
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