12-letter words containing t, u, c, k
- puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
- quick-acting — (of a drug, chemical, etc) taking effect quickly
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stick it out — to carry on or endure something until it is ended
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- suck up (to) — to flatter or fawn (on) ingratiatingly
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
- take counsel — receive advice
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- tenure-track — of or relating to a college- or university-teaching job that can lead to a tenured position.
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- tip-up truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- touch-tackle — touch football.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- tuckered out — exhausted
- turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- turtlenecked — having a turtleneck
- tussock moth — any of several moths of the family Lymantriidae, the larvae of which have characteristic tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees.
- understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unity ticket — a how-to-vote card in a union election associating Labor and Communist candidates
- unstockinged — not wearing or covered by stockings
- up the creek — U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
- walnut creek — a town in W California.