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14-letter words containing y, a, k

  • kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
  • keep an eye on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keystone state — Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
  • kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • kidney machine — artificial kidney.
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • 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.
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • 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
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
  • mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
  • one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • ryukyu islands — a chain of 55 islands in the W Pacific, extending almost 650 km (400 miles) from S Japan to N Taiwan: an ancient kingdom, under Chinese rule from the late 14th century, invaded by Japan in the early 17th century, under full Japanese sovereignty from 1879 to 1945, and US control from 1945 to 1972; now part of Japan again. They are subject to frequent typhoons. Chief town: Naha (on Okinawa). Pop: 1 318 220 (2000). Area: 2196 sq km (849 sq miles)
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
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