14-letter words containing u, a, k
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
- crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
- duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- generic markup — (text) In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- hakuna mathata — no problem
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- housing market — property trade
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
- hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- just like that — suddenly
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India