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12-letter words containing c, l, a, k

  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
  • 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.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • chuck-a-luck — a gambling game in which players bet on the way three dice, contained in an hourglass-shaped cage, will fall when the cage is pivoted
  • clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
  • clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
  • clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
  • closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
  • clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
  • college park — a city in N Georgia.
  • cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
  • cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
  • crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
  • cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
  • cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
  • cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
  • czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
  • dynamic link — (compiler)   A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
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