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

  • 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  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro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).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
  • 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)
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • 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
  • 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.
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