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14-letter words containing a, c, k

  • a pack of lies — If you say that an account is a pack of lies, you mean that it is completely untrue.
  • accretion disk — the rapidly spinning disk of gas that forms around the more compact component of a close binary star system as mass is transferred to the compact companion from the primary star.
  • acknowledgedly — by general agreement, admittedly
  • acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • acoustic shock — a condition characterized by dizziness and partial hearing loss suffered by some people exposed to sudden loud noises over telephone or radio headsets; associated esp with workers in call centres
  • adcock antenna — an antenna used for direction-finding, consisting of a pair of vertical dipoles.
  • alaska current — an ocean current flowing counterclockwise in the Gulf of Alaska.
  • alaska pollock — walleye pollock.
  • amur cork tree — an Asiatic cork tree, Phellodendron amurense, of the rue family, having a deeply ridged, corky bark.
  • analogue clock — a clock in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • andrew jacksonAndrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • animal cracker — a sweet or savoury biscuit in the shape of an animal
  • ankle bracelet — an ornamental chain worn around the ankle
  • antilock brake — a brake fitted to some road vehicles that prevents skidding and improves control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • anxiety attack — a sudden onset of extreme distress and agitation
  • anxiety-attack — an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • articled clerk — a trainee solicitor bound by a written contract
  • assault jacket — a protective jacketlike garment, armored so as to resist bullets, knives, etc., worn especially by police officers for defense against attack.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
  • back clearance — runout (def 1b).
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back o' bourke — in a remote or backward place
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back scratcher — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • back to basics — If you talk about getting back to basics, you are suggesting that people have become too concerned with complicated details or new theories, and that they should concentrate on simple, important ideas or activities.
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-clearance — Machinery. the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill. Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • back-to-basics — stressing simplicity and adherence to fundamental principles: The movement suggests a back-to-basics approach to living for those whose lives have become complicated.
  • backbone cabal — (networking)   A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal cat-fight.
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • backstage pass — a document or badge that entitles the bearer to go backstage at an event, esp a pop concert
  • backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin

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