10-letter words containing o, a, k, c
- take stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
- throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- toast rack — A toast rack is an object that is designed to hold pieces of toast in an upright position and separate from each other, ready for people to eat.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- track shot — a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action
- trackpoint — (hardware) (Or "pointing stick", "nipple") A small knob found in the middle of some keyboards that works like a very short isometric joystick. Pressing it toward or away from you or from side to side moves the pointer on the screen. Ted Selker brought the concept of an in-keyboard pointing device to IBM in September 1987. TrackPoint was introduced in 1992 on the IBM ThinkPad and later on some desktops. It takes up virtually no extra room on the box or the work area and also requires minimal movement of the hands from the keyboard. Many imitations of highly variable quality appeared. Pointing sticks have also been used in many other notebook brands, including TI, HP, Compac, Dell, Toshiba (e.g. Portege 4000's "AccuPoint II"), and AST (e.g. Ascentia 910N). "TrackPoint" and "Trackpoint" are IBM trademarks.
- union jack — a jack consisting of the union of a national flag or ensign, as the U.S. jack, which has the white stars and blue field of the union of the U.S. national flag.
- unlockable — to undo the lock of (a door, chest, etc.), especially with a key.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- wacked-out — whacked-out.
- walk socks — men's knee-length stockings
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- work space — area used for work
- workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.