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12-letter words containing t, a, l, k, r

  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • sat sri akal — a salutation used in India
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • take-up reel — (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • tank trailer — a trailer truck or tractor-trailer with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
  • telemarketer — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
  • to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
  • trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
  • walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
  • walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
  • walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
  • walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
  • walnut creek — a town in W California.
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
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