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9-letter words containing c, o, k, p

  • keep cool — avoid getting hot
  • kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
  • klopstock — Friedrich Gottlieb [free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/ (Show IPA), 1724–1803, German poet.
  • koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
  • lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
  • locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
  • mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
  • mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
  • opa-locka — a town in S Florida.
  • pack into — If someone packs a lot of something into a limited space or time, they fit a lot into it.
  • pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
  • packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
  • packcloth — a cloth used for packing
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
  • pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickaroon — to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.
  • pickproof — (of a lock) designed so that it cannot be picked.
  • piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
  • pillicock — a penis
  • pinchcock — a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
  • pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
  • pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
  • pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • polo neck — high turtleneck collar
  • pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
  • poop deck — a weather deck on top of a poop.
  • poppycock — nonsense; bosh.
  • pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
  • portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
  • post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
  • potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
  • poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • precooked — to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
  • precooker — a device for cooking or partially cooking food in advance of final preparations
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
  • prog rock — a style of rock music originating in the 1970s and characterized by large-scale compositions, often on epic themes, in which musicians display instrumental virtuosity
  • prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
  • puckerood — ruined; exhausted
  • punk rock — 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.
  • retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
  • rock pool — small body of seawater among rocks
  • scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
  • skiascope — retinoscope.
  • skiascopy — retinoscope.
  • stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
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