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

  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • clicketyclack — a rhythmic, metallic sound, as that made by the wheels of a moving train
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
  • combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
  • common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
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