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

  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • keystone state — Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
  • kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • 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).
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
  • lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • 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.
  • like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
  • locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
  • make a hash of — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • 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 it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • make one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • master workman — a worker in charge.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
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