11-letter words containing c, a, n, k, e
- kitchen tea — a prewedding party to which guests bring an item of kitchenware or other gifts for the bride; shower.
- kitchenalia — cooking equipment and other items found in a kitchen
- kitchenmaid — a female servant who assists the cook.
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- knee action — Automotive. a form of suspension for the front wheels of a vehicle permitting each wheel to rise and fall independently of the other.
- kneecapping — (uncountable) The act of destroying the kneecaps of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- lake annecy — a lake in E France, in the Alps
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- linebacking — the act of forming a second line of defence, close to the linesman
- luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
- mangia-cake — a derogatory term for a White person of Anglo-Saxon origin, used among Italo-Canadians
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mock orange — Also called syringa. any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Philadelphus, of the saxifrage family, especially P. coronarius, a widely cultivated species having fragrant white flowers.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- namechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of namecheck.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.