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14-letter words containing k, a, l

  • black bindweed — a twining polygonaceous European plant, Polygonum convolvulus, with heart-shaped leaves and triangular black seed pods
  • black blizzard — a dust storm.
  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • black hawk war — a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • black root rot — any of several diseases of plants characterized by black or brown lesions on the root.
  • black sea bass — an American coastal percoid fish, Centropristes striatus, having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • black skipjack — a small spotted tuna, Euthynnus yaito, of Indo-Pacific seas
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
  • black-on-black — concerning black people exclusively
  • blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • blankety-blank — damned
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • break-up value — the value of an organization assuming that it will not continue to trade
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • 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.
  • calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • carriage clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
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