11-letter words containing d, k
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- check digit — a digit derived from and appended to a string of data digits, used to detect corruption of the data string during transmission or transcription
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- chickabiddy — a term of endearment, esp for a child
- chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
- chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
- cooked mode — The normalUnix character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver. Opposite of raw mode. See also rare mode. Other operating systems often have similar mode distinctions, and the raw/rare/cooked way of describing them has spread widely along with the C language and other Unix exports. Most generally, "cooked mode" may refer to any mode of a system that does extensive preprocessing before presenting data to a program.
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cutter deck — the blade housing on a power mower.
- daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
- dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair