14-letter words containing c, h, a, l, k
- lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- 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)
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tailor's chalk — hardened chalk or soapstone used to make temporary guide marks on a garment that is being altered.
- 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
- track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).