14-letter words containing a, l, k, e
- strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
- 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 sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- takeout double — informatory double.
- telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
- telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
- the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
- 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 joe blakes — the DT's
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- welfare worker — sb who does social or community work
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wollaston lake — a lake in NE Saskatchewan, in central Canada. About 796 sq. mi. (2062 sq. km).
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- wrecker's ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.