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10-letter words containing a, t, c, k, e

  • caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
  • castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
  • cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
  • cat tackle — a tackle for hoisting an anchor.
  • catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • chalkstone — tophus
  • cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
  • checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
  • checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
  • cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
  • crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
  • cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
  • day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
  • dead stock — farm equipment
  • dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
  • deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
  • deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
  • dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
  • dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
  • dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
  • ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
  • eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
  • fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
  • fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
  • goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
  • great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
  • halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
  • headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
  • heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
  • heath cock — the male of the black grouse.
  • hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
  • ice skater — An ice skater is someone who skates on ice.
  • ike jacket — Eisenhower jacket.
  • jack ketch — a public hangman.
  • jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
  • jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
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