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14-letter words containing c, a, k, e

  • on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
  • one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • pancake makeup — a cosmetic or theatrical makeup made of a soluble, matte powder compressed into a thin cake and typically applied with a damp sponge
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
  • pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • salt lake city — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • screen blanker — screen saver
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