9-letter words containing c, l, o, k, e
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- ice block — a flavoured frozen water ice: in Australia and New Zealand, sometimes on a stick
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- 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.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kilocycle — a unit equal to 1000 cycles: used especially in radio as 1000 cycles per second for expressing the frequency of electromagnetic waves; kilohertz. The term kilohertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: kc.
- knockless — (of an engine, bearing, or fuel) producing no knocking sound
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lovelocks — Plural form of lovelock.
- mccloskey — John, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- overclock — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- polo neck — high turtleneck collar
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- rock-like — Something that is rock-like is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change.
- rockledge — a city in E central Florida.
- rockslide — a fall of rocks down a hillside
- rockville — a city in central Maryland.
- roll-neck — A roll-neck sweater or a roll-necked sweater is a sweater with a high neck than can be rolled over.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- schlocker — something of poor quality; schlock
- schnorkel — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).
- schnorkle — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sollicker — force; momentum.
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- stockless — having no stock, as an anchor.
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- tide lock — a lock at the entrance to a tidal basin.
- time lock — a lock, as for the door of a bank vault, equipped with a mechanism that makes it impossible to operate the lock within certain hours.
- unblocked — to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage.
- wloclawek — a city in N central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key