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14-letter words containing c, o, k

  • control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
  • cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • corporate park — office park.
  • cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
  • counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
  • crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
  • deep hack mode — hack mode
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
  • duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
  • electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
  • electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
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