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

  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
  • cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
  • clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
  • closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
  • clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
  • crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
  • cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
  • cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
  • cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
  • dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
  • duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
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