13-letter words containing c, r, a, k
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- cream cracker — Cream crackers are crisp dry biscuits which are eaten with cheese.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dick size war — penis war
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- for a kickoff — the beginning of something
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
- frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.