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14-letter words containing k, i, n, a

  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • flotation tank — an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • housing market — property trade
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • in at the kill — present at the end or climax of some undertaking
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
  • interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
  • 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
  • inward-looking — person
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • jacking engine — an engine for moving an idle reciprocating engine or turbine to permit inspection and repairs.
  • jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
  • jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
  • jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • keep a rein on — to check, control, or restrain
  • keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
  • 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
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
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