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11-letter words containing c, h, o, k

  • lake school — Lake Poets.
  • leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
  • lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
  • lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
  • lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
  • metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
  • mock heroic — imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action: mock-heroic dignity.
  • mock-heroic — imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action: mock-heroic dignity.
  • musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • old hickory — Jackson1
  • on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • school book — School books are books giving information about a particular subject, which children use at school.
  • school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
  • school-book — a book for study in schools.
  • schwarzkopfElisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • shell shock — battle fatigue.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • sketch show — a show, such as a TV show or public performance, consisting of a variety of short comedy scenes
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
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