12-letter words containing c, o, k, e, s
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- jackarooesse — (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.