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14-letter words that end in k

  • telephone book — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • the great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • to change tack — If you change tack or try a different tack, you try a different method for dealing with a situation.
  • to get to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
  • torpedo attack — an attack launched from aircraft, ships, or submarines, using a bomb that is shaped like a tube and travels under water
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • twelve o'clock — 12 noon, 1200 hours, midday
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • up to the mark — acceptably good
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • vibropac block — a precast concrete building block
  • virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • visitors' book — a book in a public building in which people write their names and addresses and any comments they have about the place
  • voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
  • walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
  • winning streak — several consecutive wins
  • write the book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • writer's block — a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.
  • yenisei ostyak — Ket.
  • yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday
  • you can't talk — you yourself are guilty of offending in the very matter you are decrying
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