9-letter words containing k, a, t, e
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakbeat — a type of electronic dance music
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- catkinate — like a catkin
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- deskfasts — Plural form of deskfast.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- east york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 108,000
- eduskunta — the Finnish parliament in Helsinki
- enokitake — a mushroom of the genus Flammulina used in Asian cuisine