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11-letter words containing c, a, k, e

  • pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
  • panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
  • peacekeeper — a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator: Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.
  • peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
  • peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peacock ore — bornite.
  • 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
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
  • prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • quacksalver — a quack doctor.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
  • racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rickettsial — 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.
  • 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 garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • 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.
  • rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
  • safecracker — a person who breaks open safes to rob them.
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • sales check — sales slip.
  • sales clerk — shop assistant
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
  • scale maker — a person who makes scales for weighing
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
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