11-letter words containing t, y, k
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- stroke play — medal play.
- struck jury — a jury obtained by special agreement between the opposing attorneys, each taking turns in eliminating a member of the impaneled group until 12 members remain.
- system disk — the disk from which a computer boots up
- talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
- talkability — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
- thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
- thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
- tickety-boo — fine; OK.
- ticky-tacky — shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
- tiddlywinks — a game played on a flat surface, in which players attempt to snap small plastic disks into a cup by pressing the edges of the disks with larger ones.
- tiggywinkle — a gene found in fish and belonging to a family of genes known as the Hedgehog family
- tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
- token money — coins of the regular issue having greater face value than the value of their metal content
- tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
- troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- tsiolkovsky — Konstantin Eduardovich [kon-stuh n-teen ed-wahr-duh-vich;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen e-doo-ahr-duh-vyich] /ˈkɒn stən tin ɛdˈwɑr də vɪtʃ;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin ɛ duˈɑr də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1935, Russian inventor and rocket expert.
- tukey, john — John Tukey
- turkey cock — the male of the turkey.
- turkey nest — a small earth dam adjacent to, and higher than, a larger earth dam, to feed water by gravity to a cattle trough, etc
- turkey trot — an early ragtime one-step, popular in the period of World War I
- turkey-trot — to dance the turkey trot.
- ust sysolsk — former name of Syktyvkar.
- walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walky-talky — walkie-talkie.
- weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- yackety-yak — noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation
- yastrzemski — Carl Michael ("Yaz") born 1939, U.S. baseball player.
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- yiddishkeit — Jewish tradition, culture, character, or heritage.
- youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
- youthquakes — Plural form of youthquake.