14-letter words containing t, a, k, e, l
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- skeleton staff — the minimum staff needed by a company during a time where most staff do not normally work, such as a holiday, weekend, etc
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- 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.
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- straddle truck — a self-propelled vehicle, having a chassis far above the ground, for carrying loads of lumber or the like beneath the chassis and between the wheels.
- strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
- take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
- take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- takeout double — informatory double.
- telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
- telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
- the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- the joe blakes — the DT's
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wollaston lake — a lake in NE Saskatchewan, in central Canada. About 796 sq. mi. (2062 sq. km).
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.