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14-letter words containing k, i, n, e, t, h

  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
  • pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • 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.
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • take a hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
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