12-letter words containing a, k, i, c, n
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chickahominy — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Powhatan confederacy that inhabited eastern Virginia.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- dynamic link — (compiler) A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- forked chain — branched chain.
- frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jickajogging — the act of moving in a jogging or rolling motion
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
- karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table