9-letter words containing c, a, k, e
- clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- core leak — memory leak
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- coxsackie — Any of several viruses of the genus Enterovirus similar to poliovirus.
- crab cake — patty made of crab meat
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- crapelike — resembling crape
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- earcockle — A disease of wheat in which the ears blacken and contract.
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.