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

  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • take a chance — act on a possibility
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • take the cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • tick-tack-toe — a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
  • ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • truck tractor — tractor (def 2).
  • truck-tractor — a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • wacky tobacky — marijuana.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • what the heck — You say 'what the heck' to indicate that you do not care about a bad aspect of an action or situation.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
  • zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.
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