11-letter words containing t, a, k, e
- on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
- racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
- rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
- racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- rattlesnake — 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.
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- repeat mark — a sign on a piece of music instructing the player to replay a certain passage or section
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.