14-letter words containing g, u, n, k
- quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- surgeon's knot — a knot resembling a reef knot, used by surgeons for tying ligatures and the like.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- united kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801–1922. 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Capital: London. Abbreviation: U.K.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.