12-letter words containing t, a, i, k
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- buck private — a common soldier
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
- captain jack — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.