14-letter words containing r, e, k, s
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- 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.
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- 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.
- network closet — (networking) The place where network hardware (other than cabling) is installed. The space should be used primarily for storage, be dry, and have electricity available. Since network equipment rarely needs attention once installed and tested, the network closet can have limited accessibility.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
- 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.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- 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.
- partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- pop one's cork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.