14-letter words containing k, a
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- 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
- 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 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
- carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
- carriage clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- 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.
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- chalk and talk — a formal method of teaching, in which the focal points are the blackboard and the teacher's voice, as contrasted with more informal child-centred activities
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- chaparral cock — roadrunner
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- 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 cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- 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
- clean and jerk — a lift in which a barbell is raised from the floor to shoulder height where it is brought to rest and then, with a lunging movement by the lifter, is thrust overhead so the arms extend straight in the air, being held in this position for a short, specified length of time.