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

  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
  • crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
  • crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
  • dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
  • economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
  • french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
  • gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
  • karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
  • keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
  • keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
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