14-letter words containing o, a, k, c
- doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
- horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- hyperkeratotic — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- internal clock — biological clock.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- karyotypically — (cytology) With regard to the karyotype.
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
- know backwards — to understand completely
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
- late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.