9-letter words containing c, o, k, t
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overthick — too thick
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- 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
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
- rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rocketeer — a person who discharges, rides in, or pilots a rocket.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- rootstock — Horticulture. a root and its associated growth buds, used as a stock in plant propagation.
- sack coat — a short coat or jacket with a straight back and no seam at the waist.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- seedstock — seed, tubers, or roots selected and kept for planting.
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- sick note — proof of illness
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- soft rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
- soft tick — any of numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, lacking a dorsal shield and having the mouthparts on the underside of the head.
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- stick out — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickwork — a player's degree of competence or proficiency as a baseball batter, hockey or lacrosse player, etc.: Frequent practice improved his stickwork.
- stock boy — a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stockfish — fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.
- stockholm — a kingdom in N Europe, in the E part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 173,732 sq. mi. (449,964 sq. km). Capital: Stockholm.
- stockhorn — pibgorn.
- stockiest — of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- stockless — having no stock, as an anchor.
- stocklist — a list or inventory of all the items in stock