14-letter words containing i, c, h, k, a
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- 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).
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- 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.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- 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)
- schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- tailor's chalk — hardened chalk or soapstone used to make temporary guide marks on a garment that is being altered.
- take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- 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
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- thick and thin — all manner of difficulties
- ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
- 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).