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

  • knot stitch — a stitch that produces a knot on the fabric surface, made by twining the thread about the needle.
  • lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
  • lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • nose tackle — nose guard
  • onside kick — a kickoff deliberately kicked a short distance in an attempt by the kicking team to regain possession of the ball by recovering it after it has traveled forward the legally required distance of 10 yards, beyond the 50-yard line.
  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
  • 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.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • unshockable — not able to be shocked
  • workbenches — Plural form of workbench.
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