11-letter words containing t, r, a, c, k
- kirkpatrick — Jeane (Jordan) [jeen] /dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1926–2006, U.S. diplomat: ambassador to the U.N. 1981–85.
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- mistracking — track system.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- multi-track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
- rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
- racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
- ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.