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14-letter words containing i, c, k

  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • brickor mortis — a period of difficult times in the housing industry, where house prices and sales of properties are falling and credit for new purchases is difficult to obtain
  • broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • bucking bronco — an untamed horse that cowboys try to ride in a rodeo
  • building block — If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • captain cooker — a wild pig
  • captain's pick — the selection by a team's captain of a player for that team, often a player who has not met criteria for automatic selection
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
  • carriage clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
  • cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
  • casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
  • checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
  • cheese skipper — a dipterous fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping: family Piophilidae
  • cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
  • chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
  • chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
  • chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
  • chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
  • chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
  • chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
  • christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
  • cinnamon stick — a rolled strip of the dried aromatic bark of the tropical Asian lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, used as a spice for flavouring food and drink
  • clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
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