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14-letter words containing k, s, t, a

  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
  • lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • master workman — a worker in charge.
  • 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.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
  • neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
  • novoshakhtinsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, NE of the Sea of Azov.
  • nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • 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.
  • 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 lights — the parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width
  • 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.
  • patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • 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.
  • protocol stack — (protocol)   A layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. Each intermediate protocol layer uses the layer below it to provide a service to the layer above. The OSI seven layer model is an attempt to provide a standard framework within which to describe protocol stacks.
  • 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
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
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