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14-letter words containing r, a, k, e, n, g

  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • 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.
  • neuromarketing — the process of researching the brain patterns of consumers to reveal their responses to particular advertisements and products before developing new advertising campaigns and branding techniques
  • 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.
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • parking garage — A parking garage is a building where people can leave their cars.
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • serial killing — multiple killings or murders carried out by the same person or persons
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • winning streak — several consecutive wins
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
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