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11-letter words containing c, o, k, n

  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • quick money — money that you make easily or quickly
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rickrolling — the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink
  • rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
  • rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock pigeon — rock dove.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
  • silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • smokescreen — If something that you do or say is a smokescreen, it is intended to hide the truth about your activities or intentions.
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stockinette — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
  • stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
  • stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
  • take action — act, do sth practical
  • take notice — listen, heed
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • ten o'clock — 10 A.M., 1100 hours
  • ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • uncuckolded — not cuckolded
  • undercooked — not cooked enough
  • unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
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