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

  • coffee-table book — A coffee-table book is a large expensive book with a lot of pictures, which is designed to be looked at rather than to be read properly, and is usually placed where people can see it easily.
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • drawn-thread work — ornamental needlework done by drawing threads out of the fabric and using the remaining threads to form lacelike patterns
  • eastern turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
  • felix frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
  • frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
  • garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
  • get a kick out of — enjoy, take pleasure in
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • great awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
  • great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
  • greater forkbeard — a fish of the Phycidae family
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
  • heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
  • intent to package — (Debian)   (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.
  • internet backbone — (communications, networking)   High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points (NAPs). The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
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