14-letter words containing t, a, k, e, c
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- corporate park — office park.
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- covered market — an indoor market
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
- 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
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- 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).
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- keep the peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc