10-letter words containing c, r, a, k, e
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- crakeberry — The crowberry.
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.