12-letter words containing k, e, t
- 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).
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- 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
- chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
- cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket