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14-letter words containing a, c, k, t

  • late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
  • megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
  • mercator track — a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • mileage ticket — a book (mileage book) or ticket containing coupons good for a certain number of miles of transportation at a fixed rate per mile.
  • milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • 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.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • 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
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • 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.
  • pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • protocol stack — (protocol)   A layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. Each intermediate protocol layer uses the layer below it to provide a service to the layer above. The OSI seven layer model is an attempt to provide a standard framework within which to describe protocol stacks.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
  • railroad track — railway line
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
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