14-letter words containing t, e, k, n
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- 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
- dimethylketone — acetone.
- dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- 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
- electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
- electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
- electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
- 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.
- fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- 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.
- french cricket — a child's game resembling cricket, in which the batsman's legs are used as the wicket
- french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
- frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site