11-letter words containing t, e, k
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check digit — a digit derived from and appended to a string of data digits, used to detect corruption of the data string during transmission or transcription
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checksheets — Plural form of checksheet.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website