11-letter words containing c, o, k, n
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- dockization — the process of turning into docks
- dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
- don cossack — a member of the eastern branch of the Cossacks, living along the Don
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- eton jacket — a waist-length jacket with a V-shaped back, open in front, formerly worn by pupils of Eton College
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- french knot — an ornamental stitch made by looping the thread three or four times around the needle before putting it into the fabric
- fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- goalkicking — the act of taking a goal kick
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- honor trick — (in certain bidding systems) a high card or set of high cards that can reasonably be expected to take a trick, the total worth of such cards in a hand being the basis for evaluating its strength and bidding.
- hop-picking — the activity of picking hops
- hypokinetic — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
- interlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlock.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jack mormon — a non-Mormon living amicably among Mormons.
- jack salmon — walleye (def 1).
- jackarooing — Present participle of jackaroo.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
- kente cloth — a fabric made esp. in Ghana, woven in strips of brightly patterned bands interspersed with bands of black
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick boxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.