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15-letter words containing i, t, a, k

  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • take the mickey — mock
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
  • terminal market — an organized market in a city into which large quantities of agricultural produce, livestock, etc., are shipped for distribution and sale.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • unstatesmanlike — not resembling or befitting a political leader whose wisdom, integrity, etc win great respect
  • vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
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