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12-letter words containing c, a, k, e

  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • care package — Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
  • career break — If someone takes a career break, they stop working in their particular profession for a period of time, with the intention of returning to it later.
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
  • cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • 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.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
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