14-letter words containing a, c, k, n
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- 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)
- lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
- lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 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
- lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
- 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.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- 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 barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
- 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.
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nickel acetate — a green, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 6 NiO 4 , used chiefly in nickel-plating.
- nickel-plating — the process of depositing a thin layer of nickel on a surface, usually by electrolysis
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- 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.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- packet writing — (storage) A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
- 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
- pancake makeup — a cosmetic or theatrical makeup made of a soluble, matte powder compressed into a thin cake and typically applied with a damp sponge
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
- patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickwickianism — a Pickwickian statement, expression, word, or the like.
- pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.