9-letter words containing c, a, k, e
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camellike — resembling a camel
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- carjacked — Simple past tense and past participle of carjack.
- carjacker — A carjacker is someone who attacks and steals from people who are driving their own cars.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- catkinate — like a catkin
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- cell pack — a container made of cellular plastic, as one used for holding flowers or plants.
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chalkface — the work or art of teaching in a school, esp classroom teaching as distinct from organizational responsibilities (esp in the phrase at the chalkface)
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- checkmark — a tick
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickadee — A chickadee is a small North American bird with gray and black feathers.
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clam-like — resembling a clam
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.