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14-letter words containing a, c, k

  • french pancake — a thin, light pancake, usually served with a sweet or savory filling.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
  • grammarchecker — (computing) A software application, like a spellchecker, that attempts to verify proper grammar in a document.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hyperkeratotic — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • internal clock — biological clock.
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jacking engine — an engine for moving an idle reciprocating engine or turbine to permit inspection and repairs.
  • jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
  • jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
  • jackson method — (programming)   A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
  • jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
  • james h. clark — Dr. James H. Clark
  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
  • kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
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