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12-letter words containing k, r, i, t

  • strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • strike price — The strike price is the price of an option when it is exercised.
  • stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
  • strong drink — alcoholic drink
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • take part in — join in
  • take the air — to go out of doors, as for a short walk or ride
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • tank farming — hydroponics.
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • tank trailer — a trailer truck or tractor-trailer with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • test cricket — a form of cricket that takes the longest amount of time to play
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
  • tickler coil — the coil by which the plate circuit of a vacuum tube is inductively coupled with the grid circuit in the process of regeneration.
  • tickler file — a file consisting of memoranda, notices, electronic signals, or the like that serves to remind the user of matters that must be attended to.
  • tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tip-up truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
  • tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
  • to mark time — If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen.
  • token strike — a brief strike intended to convey strength of feeling on a disputed issue
  • track racing — a form of motorcycle racing where teams or individuals race opponents around an oval track
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • tree cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • trick ending — an ending of a story or play, etc., that employs a surprise element or character to resolve the plot.
  • trick riding — the performance of tricks on horseback
  • trickishness — the quality of being crafty
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
  • truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
  • truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
  • trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
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