11-letter words containing a, k, e
- care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
- cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow
- checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesecakes — Plural form of cheesecake.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.