14-letter words containing t, a, k, e, n
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- drinking water — water that is safe to drink
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- east pakistani — of or relating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- 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.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
- 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 in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
- hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- housing market — property trade
- in at the kill — present at the end or climax of some undertaking
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
- in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
- interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
- 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
- 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.
- jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc