9-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cantabank — an itinerant singer
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- caretaken — looked after
- caskstand — a frame on which a cask rests
- catkinate — like a catkin
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chainlink — Wires woven in a zig-zag pattern.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chiacking — to jeer at; tease; deride.
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chinkiang — Older Spelling. Zhenjiang.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- 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
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cockswain — coxswain
- contakion — kontakion.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- 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.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- crackling — the crisp browned skin of roast pork
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksman — a burglar, esp a safe-breaker
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- 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
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.