15-letter words containing k, r, t
- the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
- to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- track and field — athletics events
- track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
- track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- trade paperback — a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hard-cover book, intended for sale in bookstores as distinguished from a cheaper and smaller paperback intended for sale on racks at drugstores, newsstands, etc.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
- truck (on) down — to walk in a carefree, leisurely manner; stroll
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- viral marketing — a marketing strategy that focuses on spreading information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially by using unconventional means such as the Internet or email: Which online social networks can help with viral marketing?
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
- week after week — every week or for many successive weeks
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
- wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
- worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
- working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.