13-letter words containing c, o, k, n
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- 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.
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- 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
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
- counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- counterstroke — a counterattack
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- fighting cock — a gamecock.
- 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
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- 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).
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
- hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.