10-letter words containing k, r, t
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- break step — to cease to march in step
- break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- cake eater — a ladies' man.
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
- care-taker — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- caretakers — Plural form of caretaker.
- caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- cart track — a rough track or road in a rural area
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- 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
- centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
- 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.
- 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.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- 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.
- comstocker — a person who practises comstockery
- corn stack — corncrib.
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cornsticks — Plural form of cornstick.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat