9-letter words containing c, o, k, n
- corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- cornstick — a corn muffin baked in the form of a small ear of corn.
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytokinin — any of a group of plant hormones that promote cell division and retard ageing in plants
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- doorknock — (Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- economick — Obsolete form of economic.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- flintlock — an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming.
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- go back n — (networking) A data link layer protocol.
- gooseneck — a curved object resembling the neck of a goose, often of flexible construction, as in the shaft of a gooseneck lamp.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- iron-sick — noting a wooden hull, fastened with iron, in which chemical interaction between the iron and the wood has resulted in the decay of both; nail-sick.
- iseikonic — relating to iseikonia
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.