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9-letter words containing c, o, k

  • billycock — any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler
  • black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
  • black cow — Midwestern U.S. a root beer float containing vanilla ice cream.
  • black dog — depression or melancholy
  • black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
  • black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
  • black oak — any of various North American oaks (esp. Quercus velutina) with dark bark or foliage
  • black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
  • black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
  • blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  • blackcock — the male of the black grouse
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
  • blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
  • blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
  • blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
  • block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
  • block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
  • blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
  • blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
  • blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
  • blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
  • boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
  • boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
  • bobbysock — ankle-length sock worn esp by teenage girls
  • bock beer — heavy dark strong beer
  • bodycheck — obstruction of another player
  • bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • bontebuck — bontebok.
  • book club — A book club is an organization that offers books at reduced prices to its members.
  • bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
  • bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
  • boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
  • bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
  • brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
  • broderick — a male given name.
  • buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
  • buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
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