11-letter words containing t, e, k
- take effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- take fright — be scared off
- take notice — listen, heed
- take office — come to power
- take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
- take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
- take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
- taken aback — toward the back.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tank engine — locomotive train
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- tax bracket — a category of taxpayer which is based on how high or low their income is
- tear-jerker — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
- tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
- telekinesis — psychokinesis.
- telekinetic — psychokinesis.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
- ten o'clock — 10 A.M., 1100 hours
- tena koutou — a Māori greeting to two or more people
- tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
- tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
- test-market — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the dakotas — North Dakota and South Dakota
- the five ks — items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs, each possessing a symbolic importance
- the gherkin — the nickname of a bluish cigar-shaped office block in the City of London; height 180 m (585 ft); opened in in 2004
- the kremlin — the citadel of Moscow, in which some government offices of the Soviet Union were located: it now contains some offices of the Russian government
- the like of — any person or thing like
- the network — network, the
- the shakers — an American millenarian sect, founded in 1747 as an offshoot of the Quakers, given to ecstatic shaking, advocating celibacy for its members, and practising common ownership of property
- the thinker — French Le Penseur. a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
- the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
- the-knights — a comedy (424 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- the-thinker — French Le Penseur. a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
- thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
- theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
- thickheaded — (of a person) dull-witted; stupid.
- think piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
- think twice — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- think-piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
- thread mark — a thin threading in paper currency to make counterfeiting difficult.