11-letter words containing a, y, c, k
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- nutty slack — coal
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- packability — The quality or state of being packable.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- ticky-tacky — shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
- tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
- unhackneyed — fresh or recent
- wacky baccy — cannabis or marijuana
- whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- yackety-yak — noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.