14-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- captain's pick — the selection by a team's captain of a player for that team, often a player who has not met criteria for automatic selection
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
- carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- chalk and talk — a formal method of teaching, in which the focal points are the blackboard and the teacher's voice, as contrasted with more informal child-centred activities
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- cinnamon stick — a rolled strip of the dried aromatic bark of the tropical Asian lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, used as a spice for flavouring food and drink
- clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
- cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
- cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- cocktail stick — a small pointed stick used for holding cherries, olives, etc, in cocktails, and for serving snacks, such as small sausages
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- corporate park — office park.
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- covered market — an indoor market
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail