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10-letter words containing k, e, t

  • caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
  • castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
  • cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
  • cat tackle — a tackle for hoisting an anchor.
  • catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
  • centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
  • chalkstone — tophus
  • cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
  • check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
  • check list — a list of items, facts, names, etc, to be checked or referred to for comparison, identification, or verification
  • check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
  • checkdigit — (data)   A one-digit checksum.
  • checklists — Plural form of checklist.
  • checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
  • checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
  • checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
  • checksheet — Alternative form of check sheet.
  • cheektooth — any molar or premolar tooth
  • chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
  • chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
  • clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
  • clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
  • cloth-like — resembling cloth
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
  • cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • cokebottle — (character, humour)   /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
  • comstocker — a person who practises comstockery
  • cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
  • cookstoves — Plural form of cookstove.
  • craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
  • cricketers — Plural form of cricketer.
  • cricketing — Cricketing means relating to or taking part in cricket.
  • crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
  • crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
  • crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
  • cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
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