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14-letter words containing t, i, c, k

  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • 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.
  • hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • 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
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • karyotypically — (cytology) With regard to the karyotype.
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • kick the habit — quit smoking
  • kill the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
  • kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
  • kinetic energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the motion of the body or of the particles in the system.
  • kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
  • king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
  • kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • licorice stick — a clarinet.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
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