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

  • network card — network interface controller
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
  • nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
  • off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket range — a firing range for rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
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