9-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- minitrack — a system for tracking satellites, space vehicles, or rockets by means of radio waves.
- mink coat — overcoat made of mink fur
- mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- nanticoke — a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
- nicky-tam — a strap or string secured round a trouser leg below the knee, formerly worn esp by farm workers to keep the trouser bottoms clear of dirt
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- off-track — designating or of legalized betting on horse races, carried on at places away from the racetrack
- one-track — having only one track.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- pack date — the date on which a foodstuff was processed or packed, often shown on the package or label.
- pack into — If someone packs a lot of something into a limited space or time, they fit a lot into it.
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- packstaff — a long pole for carrying a pack
- packtrain — a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
- pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- sack coat — a short coat or jacket with a straight back and no seam at the waist.
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- sea stack — a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.