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11-letter words containing t, e, k

  • tutankhamen — 14th century b.c, a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty.
  • unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
  • unbracketed — not bracketed; not enclosed by brackets; not connected together by brackets
  • undertaking — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • unlooked at — not looked at, investigated, or dealt with; disregarded
  • untalkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • unthickened — not thickened
  • unthinkable — inconceivable; unimaginable: the unthinkable size of the universe.
  • untrackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • vest pocket — the pocket of a waistcoat
  • vest-pocket — designed to be carried in the pocket of the vest, in a purse, or in a similarly small space; miniature: a vest-pocket dictionary.
  • voortrekker — one of the original Afrikaner settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State who migrated from the Cape Colony in the 1830s
  • wage packet — regular pay from an employer
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water snake — any of numerous and widely distributed harmless snakes of the genus Natrix, inhabiting areas in or near fresh water.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • watermarked — Simple past tense and past participle of watermark.
  • waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
  • weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
  • weak sister — a vacillating person; coward.
  • weakhearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
  • westermarck — Edward Alexander [ed-werd al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Finnish ed-vahrd ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈɛd wərd ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Finnish ˈɛd vɑrd ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.
  • westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
  • wet blanket — person: spoilsport
  • wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
  • whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
  • white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
  • wine bucket — A wine bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of wine in and keep the wine cool.
  • winter park — a city in E Florida.
  • winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
  • work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
  • work permit — a document giving permission to work in a particular country
  • workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
  • workwatcher — a person who observes racehorses in training
  • wreckmaster — an official who takes charge of cargo that has been thrown ashore after a shipwreck
  • wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
  • yackety-yak — noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation
  • yastrzemski — Carl Michael ("Yaz") born 1939, U.S. baseball player.
  • yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
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