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13-letter words containing t, a, n, k, c

  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • monkey jacket — a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
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