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12-letter words containing k, a, t

  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • captain jack — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
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