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14-letter words containing k, a, g, e, r

  • serial killing — multiple killings or murders carried out by the same person or persons
  • shaker heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
  • strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • the great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • 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.
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • winning streak — several consecutive wins
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
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