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12-letter words containing r, a, t, s, k

  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
  • rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
  • reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • sat sri akal — a salutation used in India
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • seraskierate — the headquarters of the seraskier, located in Constantinople; the Turkish War Office
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • skating rink — arena for ice skating
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