14-letter words containing ka
- okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
- package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
- pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
- phi beta kappa — a national honor society, founded in 1776, whose members are chosen, for lifetime membership, usually from among college undergraduates of high academic distinction.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- saigo takamori — 1828–77, Japanese samurai, who led (1868) the coup that restored imperial government. In 1877 he reluctantly led a samurai rebellion, committing suicide when it failed
- shankaracharya — a.d. 789?–821? Hindu Vedantist philosopher and teacher.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
- tokara islands — a group of Japanese islands in the W Pacific Ocean, in the N Ryukyu Islands.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- vinca alkaloid — any of a group of alkaloids obtained from the periwinkle Vinca rosea, such as vinblastine and vincristine, that interfere with cell division and are used in the treatment of cancer
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.