15-letter words containing c, o, k, a
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
- coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
- cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
- cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
- crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
- crackback block — a block in which a player, usually a wide receiver, angles back sharply towards the middle of the field and blocks a defensive player from the side
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- delmonico steak — club steak
- diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- docking station — device: charger
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fishhook cactus — a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc