14-letter words containing a, i, k, e
- take a meeting — to attend a business conference
- take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
- take exception — to make objections (to); demur (at)
- take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- take inventory — count stock or belongings
- take it out of — to sap the energy or vitality of
- take it out on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
- take no notice — If you take no notice of someone or something, you do not consider them to be important enough to affect what you think or what you do.
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- take the fifth — next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.
- test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- ticket barrier — gate in train station
- ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
- trick or treat — Halloween tradition
- trick-or-treat — to become involved or take part in trick or treat.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- wide-awake hat — a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yenisei ostyak — Ket.