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

  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rocket attack — a missile attack
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
  • trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
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