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13-letter words containing a, c, k, t

  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
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