11-letter words containing a, t, c, k, e
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cotton cake — cottonseed meal compressed into nuts or cubes of various sizes for feeding to animals
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
- cycle track — a special path created for cyclists to use
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- data packet — packet
- delta stock — any of the fourth rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange. Market makers need not display prices of these securities continuously and any prices displayed are taken only as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- dust jacket — book jacket.
- electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
- eton jacket — a waist-length jacket with a V-shaped back, open in front, formerly worn by pupils of Eton College
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flak jacket — U.S. Air Force. an armored garment made of steel plates covered by a padded fabric, designed to protect vital parts of the body from shrapnel.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- get back at — take revenge on
- get back to — resume