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

  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • make certain — ensure
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
  • make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • 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.
  • nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • 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.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • 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).
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • 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
  • pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • 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.
  • peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • 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
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