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14-letter words containing i, k, o, n, c

  • 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
  • finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • 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.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • 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
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • 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
  • 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.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
  • kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • mormon cricket — a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
  • one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
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