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14-letter words containing e, t, i, c, k

  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • detective-like — like a detective; having characteristics of a detective
  • dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
  • electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • 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.
  • fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • french cricket — a child's game resembling cricket, in which the batsman's legs are used as the wicket
  • french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • hyperkeratotic — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • internal clock — biological clock.
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • kick the habit — quit smoking
  • kill the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
  • kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
  • kinetic energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the motion of the body or of the particles in the system.
  • kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
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