14-letter words containing c, o, k, n
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
- console jockey — terminal junkie
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
- cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- do one's block — to become angry
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
- electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
- electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
- herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
- holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.