13-letter words containing c, o, k, i
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- no-knock raid — a search warrant that allows police officers to enter a property without knocking
- nocking point — a marked part of the bowstring where the arrow is placed
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- office worker — employee in an office
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pick-up joint — a place where people go with the intention of meeting someone to start a sexual relationship with
- pick-up point — the prearranged place where you go to collect people or things
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
- scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
- scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
- second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
- seiko rc-4000 — A wristwatch with an EIA-232 interface. A clip fitted round the watch and made electrical contact. This clip had a socket for a stereo style jack lead the other end of which was a 25-way D-type connector. The lead allowed you to enter phone numbers etc. into the watch without having to play with tiny buttons. It also meant if the battery on your watch ran out you could restore the data without having to type it all in again. It was around the era of the 8-bit home computers like the Spectrum, BBC Microcomputer, Apple II, C64 - the 1980s.
- shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.