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11-letter words containing i, k, e

  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • 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
  • checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
  • cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
  • chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
  • 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.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
  • chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
  • chimneylike — resembling a chimney
  • chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • circle jerk — mutual masturbation among three or more persons.
  • clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
  • clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
  • clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
  • clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • clock-timer — timer (def 4).
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
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