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10-letter words containing c, a, n, k, e

  • acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
  • aiken code — (data)   An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
  • alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
  • angel cake — a very light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  • ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
  • answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
  • archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
  • ashkenazic — of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews
  • back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
  • back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
  • backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
  • backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
  • backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
  • backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
  • backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
  • backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
  • backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
  • bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
  • bank clerk — an employee of a bank
  • barenecked — Having the neck bare.
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • brass neck — effrontery; nerve
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
  • cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
  • cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
  • cackhanded — left-handed
  • cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
  • candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
  • canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
  • caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
  • cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
  • cankerroot — goldthread.
  • cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
  • canvaslike — resembling canvas
  • caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • case knife — sheath knife
  • catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chalk line — a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
  • chalkiness — of or like chalk.
  • chalkstone — tophus

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