9-letter words containing c, o, k
- 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.
- 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:
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- reckon on — count on, rely on
- reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- 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 cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rock face — a perpendicular side of a rock
- rock fall — a fall of loose rocks
- rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
- rock hind — a small, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus adscensionis, inhabiting warm seas from North Carolina to Brazil, especially in the West Indies, and fished as food.
- rock jock — a mountaineering enthusiast.