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13-letter words containing c, o, k, e, s

  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
  • kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
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