10-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- cat tackle — a tackle for hoisting an anchor.
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- chalk talk — an informal lecture with pertinent points, explanatory diagrams, etc, shown on a blackboard
- chalk-talk — a talk or lecture in which the speaker illustrates points by drawing on a blackboard: The coach gave a chalk talk before the big game.
- chalkstone — tophus
- chap stick — lip balm
- cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
- checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
- checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
- click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
- clock rate — (processor, benchmark) The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- corn stack — corncrib.
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
- dead stock — farm equipment
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.