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

  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
  • chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
  • clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • coast live oak — California live oak.
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
  • cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
  • cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • cocktail stick — a small pointed stick used for holding cherries, olives, etc, in cocktails, and for serving snacks, such as small sausages
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • 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.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • 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.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • in at the kill — present at the end or climax of some undertaking
  • in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
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