9-letter words containing a, c, k, t
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stocktake — to count and check the goods on hand in a shop or business
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- tack claw — a small hand tool having a handle with a claw at one end for removing tacks.
- tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
- tack-weld — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tacmahack — tacamahac.
- tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
- talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
- tape deck — a component of an audio system for playing tapes, using an external amplifier and speakers.
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- thickhead — a stupid person; blockhead.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- tick away — time: pass
- toe crack — a sand crack on the front of the hoof of a horse.
- top whack — the maximum price
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- track rod — the rod connecting the two front wheels of a motor vehicle ensuring that they turn at the same angle
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.