11-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- take office — come to power
- take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
- taken aback — toward the back.
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tax bracket — a category of taxpayer which is based on how high or low their income is
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- thickheaded — (of a person) dull-witted; stupid.
- ticker tape — the ribbon of paper on which a ticker prints quotations or news.
- ticky-tacky — shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
- title track — The title track on a CD, record, or tape is a song or piece of music that has the same title as the CD, record, or tape.
- track brake — a mechanism that slows or stops a vehicle by pressing against the track rather than the wheels.
- track event — A track event is an event in athletics which involves running or walking around a racetrack, in contrast to events that involve only jumping or throwing.
- track shoes — light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better grip
- track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.
- tracker dog — canine trained to detect
- tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
- tracklement — any savoury condiment or sauce served with meat
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- trafficking — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- train wreck — an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
- trick-track — a variety of backgammon.
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
- trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
- unbracketed — not bracketed; not enclosed by brackets; not connected together by brackets
- untrackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
- westermarck — Edward Alexander [ed-werd al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Finnish ed-vahrd ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈɛd wərd ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Finnish ˈɛd vɑrd ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.
- whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
- whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
- workwatcher — a person who observes racehorses in training
- wreckmaster — an official who takes charge of cargo that has been thrown ashore after a shipwreck
- yackety-yak — noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation