10-letter words containing a, t, c, k
- patchcocke — a clown
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pea jacket — a short coat of thick wool, usually double-breasted and navy in color, worn by seamen, fishermen, etc.
- pick apart — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- quickhatch — a wolverine.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- race-track — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- red jacket — (Sagoyewatha) c1756–1830, Seneca leader.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
- slack suit — a man's suit for casual wear consisting of slacks and a matching shirt or loose-fitting jacket.
- smack talk — disparaging or abusive remarks intended to put off or intimidate someone, esp an opponent prior to or during a sports match
- smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
- soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spur track — a short branch track leading from the main track, and connected with it at one end only.
- stack-yard — a yard where stacks of hay, straw, etc, are kept
- stake race — a race in which part of the prize or purse is put up by the owners of the horses nominated to run in the race.
- stand back — retreat, stay at a distance
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- starstruck — captivated by famous people or by fame itself.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- still pack — the pack not in play in a game in which two packs are used alternately.