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14-letter words containing a, s, k, i

  • chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
  • 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
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • coast live oak — California live oak.
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • 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 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
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • 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.
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadokokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east pakistani — of or relating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • high as a kite — very drunk
  • housing market — property trade
  • hyperkeratosis — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
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