12-letter words containing c, r, a, k
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crack a joke — make a funny remark
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
- cracker jack — a confection of sweet, glazed popcorn and peanuts
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- factory work — work in a factory
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
- flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
- grape picker — someone who picks grapes
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.