13-letter words containing k, r, t
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- counterstroke — a counterattack
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- crotch rocket — a high-speed, high-performance motorcycle characterized by an aerodynamic body shape which requires or encourages the driver to lean forward
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disk striping — data striping
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- dyer's rocket — weld2 .
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- field 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)
- firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
- first-aid kit — emergency medical set
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- folkloristics — folklore (def 2).