14-letter words containing n, i, k
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- booking office — A booking office is a room where tickets are sold and booked, especially in a theatre or station.
- brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
- breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
- broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- bucking bronco — an untamed horse that cowboys try to ride in a rodeo
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building block — If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.
- building works — construction projects
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- captain's pick — the selection by a team's captain of a player for that team, often a player who has not met criteria for automatic selection
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
- chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- cinnamon stick — a rolled strip of the dried aromatic bark of the tropical Asian lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, used as a spice for flavouring food and drink
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship