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12-letter words that end in k

  • take a break — have a rest
  • take to task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
  • talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • tartar steak — ground beefsteak seasoned with salt and pepper and served uncooked, often mixed with a raw egg and garnished with capers, onions, etc.
  • tenure-track — of or relating to a college- or university-teaching job that can lead to a tenured position.
  • the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tickled pink — to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
  • tip the wink — to give a hint
  • 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
  • to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
  • toe the mark — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • tonnage deck — the upper deck in a vessel with only two decks.
  • torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
  • trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • up the creek — U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
  • vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
  • van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
  • velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
  • vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
  • voroshilovsk — former name of Stavropol.
  • walkingstick — a stick used for walking
  • walnut creek — a town in W California.
  • watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
  • watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
  • weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
  • week by week — each week
  • welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
  • wesley clark — (person)   One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
  • west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
  • west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
  • whiskey jack — gray jay.
  • widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
  • widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
  • witch's mark — devil's mark.
  • wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
  • working week — A working week is the amount of time during a normal week that you spend doing your job.
  • worried sick — extremely anxious about sb or sth
  • writing desk — a piece of furniture with a surface for writing, with drawers and pigeonholes for writing materials.
  • you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself
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