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

  • jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
  • jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
  • jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
  • jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
  • jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
  • jackasses — Plural form of jackass.
  • jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
  • jackknife — a large pocketknife.
  • jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
  • jacksmelt — a large silversides, Atherinopsis californiensis, found along the coast of California, that grows to a length of 22 inches (55 cm).
  • jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
  • jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
  • jampacked — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
  • jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
  • kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
  • kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
  • kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
  • kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
  • karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
  • keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep pace — go as fast
  • kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
  • ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
  • key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
  • kinematic — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
  • lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
  • lackering — to coat with lacquer.
  • laid deck — a wooden deck having planking laid parallel to the sides of the hull so as to follow the curves toward the ends of the vessel.
  • lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years
  • lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
  • lancejack — a lance corporal
  • latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
  • law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
  • lay clerk — lay vicar.
  • leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
  • left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
  • leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
  • lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
  • lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
  • lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
  • lockmaker — a person who makes locks
  • lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
  • mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
  • mackensen — August von [ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1945, German field marshal.
  • mackenzie — Sir Alexander, 1764–1820, Scottish explorer in Canada.
  • mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
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