0%

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

  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packet driver — (networking)   IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
  • packet switch — packet switching
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • pay the check — When a customer pays the check in a restaurant, they pay the amount that they owe for their meal.
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • quarter crack — sand crack.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quarterdecker — an officer who serves on the quarterdeck; a gun situated on the quarterdeck
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?