13-letter words containing t, a, k, e
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- stock footage — film containing stock shots.
- stokes' aster — a composite plant, Stokesia laevis, having lavender-blue, asterlike flowers.
- strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- street market — outdoor stalls
- street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
- strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- take a chance — act on a possibility
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take on board — be receptive
- take pride in — be proud
- take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
- take the cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
- take the piss — mock
- take the road — to begin a journey or tour
- take the veil — to become a nun
- take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
- take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- talk the talk — to speak convincingly on a particular subject, showing apparent mastery of its jargon and themes; often used in combination with the expression walk the walk
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- taranaki gate — a rough-and-ready gate in a fence made from wire and battens
- target market — intended customers
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- thank heavens — used as an exclamation of gratitude and relief
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the naked eye — If you say that something cannot be seen by the naked eye, you mean that it cannot be seen without the help of equipment such as a telescope or microscope.