14-letter words containing n, e, k, i
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- 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.
- take a meeting — to attend a business conference
- take exception — to make objections (to); demur (at)
- take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- take inventory — count stock or belongings
- take it out on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take no notice — If you take no notice of someone or something, you do not consider them to be important enough to affect what you think or what you do.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- test-tube skin — skin that has been grown in the laboratory from a patch of a person's skin, used for autografting, especially in the treatment of extensive burns.
- 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 counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
- 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.
- train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- united kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801–1922. 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Capital: London. Abbreviation: U.K.
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- working memory — temporary or short-term recall
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yenisei ostyak — Ket.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.