14-letter words containing n, k
- break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
- break the news — announce sth
- 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 consort — a musical ensemble with instruments of different types or families, as string and woodwind, especially for Renaissance music.
- broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
- broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.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
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- 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
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- 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
- calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
- canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
- canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- 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
- carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- Československo — Czechoslovakia
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- chalk and talk — a formal method of teaching, in which the focal points are the blackboard and the teacher's voice, as contrasted with more informal child-centred activities
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- 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
- clean and jerk — a lift in which a barbell is raised from the floor to shoulder height where it is brought to rest and then, with a lunging movement by the lifter, is thrust overhead so the arms extend straight in the air, being held in this position for a short, specified length of time.
- clean-and-jerk — a lift in weightlifting in which the weight is held momentarily at shoulder height before being thrust overhead
- 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