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15-letter words containing t, a, k, e

  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • characteristick — Obsolete form of characteristic.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
  • clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
  • contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data link level — data link layer
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • engagement book — couple
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
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