19-letter words containing r, a, c, k, e, t
- lord baltimore cake — a yellow layer cake, using only the yolks of eggs and having a fruit-nut filling consisting of pecans, almonds, maraschino cherries, and macaroon crumbs.
- miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
- not worth a cracker — worthless; useless
- okeechobee waterway — a waterway in S Florida from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. 155 miles (244 km) long.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- optical mark reader — (hardware) (OMR) A special scanning device that can read carefully placed pencil marks on specially designed documents. OMR is frequenty used in forms, questionnaires, and answer-sheets.
- parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
- particle kinematics — Particle kinematics is the study of the movement of particles, without considering the forces that cause this movement.
- pileated woodpecker — a large, black-and-white American woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, having a prominent red crest.
- pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
- puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
- quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
- rake over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- rap on the knuckles — a mild reprimand or light sentence
- rickettsial disease — any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
- secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- stick in one's craw — the crop of a bird or insect.
- sweetheart neckline — a neckline on a woman's garment, as a dress, with a high back and a low-cut front with two curved edges resembling the conventionalized shape of a heart.
- take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
- take care to do sth — If you take care to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
- the mathworks, inc. — (company) The company marketing MATLAB. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, Massachusetts 01760-2098 USA. Telephone: +1 (508) 647-7000. Fax: +1 (508) 647-7101.
- the pickwick papers — a novel written by the English novelist Charles Dickens(1812--70)
- to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
- trickle bed reactor — A trickle bed reactor is a reactor in which gravity makes a gas and a liquid flow through a bed of catalyst.
- tricks of the trade — expert techniques
- tussock caterpillar — the larva of a tussock moth.
- white-collar worker — office employee, clerical worker
- within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets