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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  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro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.
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