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14-letter words containing t, i, n, o, k

  • gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • housing market — property trade
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • 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
  • keystone joist — a reinforced-concrete joist with sloping sides and the top wider than the bottom.
  • 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
  • kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
  • 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 of beasts — the lion.
  • 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.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
  • kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
  • 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.
  • konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • mormon cricket — a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
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