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

  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
  • kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • kidney machine — artificial kidney.
  • kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
  • kindergardener — Misspelling of kindergartner.
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
  • make a dent in — a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
  • make an end of — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
  • make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.
  • meat and drink — a source of pleasure
  • medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
  • medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
  • naked mole rat — a nearly hairless rodent, Heterocephalus glaber, of eastern African dry steppes and savannas, having two protruding upper and lower front teeth and living entirely underground in colonies, based on a single breeding female and specialized workers of both sexes.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • 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).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
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