13-letter words containing c, o, k, l
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- compiler jock — A programmer who specialises in writing compilers.
- comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- control stick — the lever by which a pilot controls the lateral and longitudinal movements of an aircraft
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
- digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment