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10-letter words containing t, i, c, k

  • acousticks — Obsolete form of acoustics.
  • air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
  • air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
  • air ticket — a ticket to travel on a commercial plane
  • alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
  • anti-knock — An anti-knock agent helps to stop an engine from knocking, making it function more smoothly.
  • anticaking — denoting an agent used to prevent substances from going hard or forming lumps
  • antihijack — acting to prevent or resolve hijack situations
  • antishocks — antishock
  • arsmetrick — relating to the cheeks of a person's bottom that are identical
  • artichokes — Plural form of artichoke.
  • autarkical — of or relating to autarky
  • back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
  • back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
  • back-trail — to backtrack.
  • backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
  • backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
  • backdating — Present participle of backdate.
  • backlights — Plural form of backlight.
  • backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
  • backsights — Plural form of backsight.
  • backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
  • backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
  • bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
  • big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
  • black titi — See under titi2 .
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
  • caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
  • catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke

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