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14-letter words containing t, e, k

  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • check the helm — to swing back the helm of a vessel to prevent it from turning too quickly or too far
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
  • chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
  • chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
  • chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
  • christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • coast live oak — California live oak.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
  • control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
  • cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • corporate park — office park.
  • counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • detective-like — like a detective; having characteristics of a detective
  • dimethylketone — acetone.
  • dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
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