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10-letter words containing k, e, t

  • superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
  • superthick — extremely thick
  • supertruck — a fast powerful truck used in truck racing
  • surge tank — a large surge chamber.
  • sweat sock — one of a pair of socks made of thick, absorbent cotton, wool, or other material and worn during exercise, sports, leisure activity, etc.
  • sweepstake — a sweepstakes.
  • sweet talk — cajolery, persuasion by flattery
  • sweet-talk — to use cajoling words.
  • t. kohonen — (person)   A researcher at the University of Helsinki who has been studying neural networks for many years with the idea of modelling as closely as possible the behaviour of biological systems. His name is commonly associated with a particular kind of neural network in which there are only two kinds of neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), input and others. All the input neurons are connected to all others and the others are connected only to their other nearest neighbors. The training algorithm is a relatively simple one based on the geometric layout of the neurons, and makes use of simulated annealing.
  • table talk — informal conversation at meals.
  • take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
  • take aback — to astonish or disconcert
  • take after — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • take amiss — out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; improperly; wrongly; astray: Did I speak amiss?
  • take apart — into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
  • take aside — talk to privately
  • take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
  • take heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • take issue — to disagree
  • take leave — to say farewell (to)
  • take notes — to write down notes, as during a lecture or interview, for later reference
  • take place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • take shape — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
  • take sides — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
  • take steps — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • take stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • take turns — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • take up on — If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it.
  • take-along — intended or suitable for taking along, as on a trip: take-along snacks for long car trips.
  • talk sense — If you say that someone talks sense, you mean that what they say is sensible.
  • talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
  • taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
  • taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
  • task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
  • taskmaster — a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tastemaker — a person or thing that establishes or strongly influences what is considered to be stylish, acceptable, or worthwhile in a given sphere of interest, as the arts.
  • tea basket — a lunch basket or picnic hamper.
  • tearjerker — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • tegakwitha — Tekakwitha
  • tekakwitha — Kateri [kah-tuh-ree] /ˈkɑ tə ri/ (Show IPA), or Catherine, 1656–80, North American Indian ascetic; convert to Roman Catholicism.
  • teleworker — person who works from home
  • ten-strike — Tenpins. a strike.
  • tena korua — a Māori greeting to two people
  • tenterhook — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
  • test blank — a typed or printed test form containing questions or tasks to be responded to.
  • tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
  • texas deck — the uppermost deck of an inland or western river steamer.
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