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11-letter words containing t, e, k

  • stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
  • storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
  • stress mark — a mark placed before, after, or over a syllable to indicate stress in pronunciation; accent mark.
  • strike back — retaliate
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
  • superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
  • supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
  • sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
  • swiss steak — a thick slice of steak dredged in flour and pounded, browned, and braised with tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables.
  • system disk — the disk from which a computer boots up
  • table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
  • tack hammer — a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.
  • tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • take a bath — a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
  • take a dive — to lose a prizefight purposely by pretending to get knocked out
  • take a hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
  • take a hint — If you take a hint, you understand something that is suggested to you indirectly.
  • take a joke — have a sense of humour
  • take a leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
  • take a peek — look briefly, furtively
  • take a risk — to proceed in an action without regard to the possibility of danger involved in it
  • take a seat — sit down
  • take a shit — to defecate
  • take a walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • take action — act, do sth practical
  • take advice — receive guidance
  • take aim at — If you take aim at someone or something, you criticize them strongly.
  • take charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
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