14-letter words containing k, a, s, e
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
- 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.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
- omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
- oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
- partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
- pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- plain speaking — expressing oneself directly
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
- pull up stakes — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
- roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.