10-letter words containing k, a, t
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- draft mark — any of a series of figures or marks at the stem or stern of a vessel indicating the distance vertically from the lowermost part of the hull.
- drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- dreikanter — a pebble or boulder having three faces formed by the action of windblown sand.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
- embarkment — Embarkation; the act of setting out.
- eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- euromarket — economics
- fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
- fantastick — Obsolete form of fantastic.
- fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fight back — retaliate
- first dark — twilight.
- flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
- flake tool — a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.
- flat broke — having no money
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- free skate — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- front-rank — among the best or most important; foremost; topnotch.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
- gatun lake — an artificial lake in the Canal Zone, forming part of the Panama Canal: created by the Gatun dam. 164 sq. mi. (425 sq. km).
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- glass tank — a reverberatory furnace in which glass is melted directly under the flames.