12-letter words containing t, a, k, e
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- 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
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
- make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
- make certain — ensure
- make eyes at — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- market maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
- market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- 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.
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- 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.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- mental block — inability to recall
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- 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.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.