9-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- enranckle — to upset, make irate
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- fucking a — an emphatic exclamation of approval
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- gigantick — Obsolete form of gigantic.
- go back n — (networking) A data link layer protocol.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- jack bean — a bushy tropical plant, Canavalia ensiformis, of the legume family, grown especially for forage.
- 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.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
- jackknife — a large pocketknife.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- kaczynski — Lech. 1949–2010, Polish politician, president of Poland (2005–10)
- 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.
- kanamycin — An aminoglycoside antibiotic marketed under the trade name Kantrex.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- kickstand — a device for supporting a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use, pivoted to the rear axle in such a way that it can be kicked down below the rear wheel.
- kinematic — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- king clam — geoduck.
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knapsacks — Plural form of knapsack.
- knockback — A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)