13-letter words containing t, r, a, c, k
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.