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13-letter words containing c, o, k

  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • bonanza creek — a stream in W Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Klondike River near Dawson: gold strike 1896. 20 miles (32 km) long.
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
  • brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
  • buoyancy tank — an enclosed air-filled section of a boat, ship or hovercraft designed to keep it afloat and prevent it from sinking
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
  • changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.
  • chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
  • choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
  • chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
  • coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
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