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14-letter words containing r, a, c, k

  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • know backwards — to understand completely
  • lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
  • 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)
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
  • medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
  • megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
  • mercator track — a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • naval barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
  • naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • ockham's razor — Occam's razor.
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
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