10-letter words containing t, r, a, c, k
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- clock rate — (processor, benchmark) The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- corn stack — corncrib.
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- ice skater — An ice skater is someone who skates on ice.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jackie tar — jackatar.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- keep 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.
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kick-start — to start by means of a kick starter: to kick-start a motorcycle.
- kickstarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kickstart.
- kilpatrick — Hugh Judson [juhd-suh n] /ˈdʒʌd sən/ (Show IPA), 1836–81, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.