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12-letter words containing t, a, k, e, i

  • kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • korea strait — a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
  • lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • make certain — ensure
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
  • meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
  • minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
  • mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
  • nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • 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.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • 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.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
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