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12-letter words containing e, n, k

  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
  • chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
  • chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
  • chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
  • city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
  • clos network — (networking)   A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
  • cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
  • cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
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