9-letter words containing c, y, k
- kyriarchy — A system of
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- lock away — put in prison
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- lucky dip — game: picking out random prize
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- mccloskey — John, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.
- moby dick — a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- muckymuck — a person who is or looks very important
- nicky-tam — a strap or string secured round a trouser leg below the knee, formerly worn esp by farm workers to keep the trouser bottoms clear of dirt
- nit-picky — tending to raise petty objections; pernickety
- nonsticky — not sticky
- np tricky — (humour) A play on NP hard describing an algorithm or piece of code that is too complicated for a mere mortal to understand.
- ollycrock — (South Africa) giant periwinkle.
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
- physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- 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.
- poppycock — nonsense; bosh.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
- rockingly — in a rocking manner
- sickishly — in a sickish manner
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- sock away — to strike or hit hard.
- stock boy — a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- sway-back — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- tick away — time: pass
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- tuck away — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- unluckily — unfortunately
- warlockry — witchcraft
- wrynecked — Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key