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14-letter words containing k, l, e, b

  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • takeout double — informatory double.
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • telephone book — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the joe blakes — the DT's
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
  • wrecker's ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
  • writer's block — a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.
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