9-letter words containing k, c, l
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coal sack — a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockblock — (vulgar, slang) To make impossible another's intended goal of sexual intercourse.
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cocklofts — Plural form of cockloft.
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- coin lock — a lock that is opened by the insertion of a coin.
- cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
- cold deck — a pack with the cards in prearranged order, secretly exchanged for the one in use; stacked deck.
- cold duck — an alcoholic beverage made from equal parts of burgundy and champagne
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-cock — to strike so as to make unconscious
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- color-key — color-code.
- cooldrink — (South Africa) soft drink.
- core leak — memory leak
- corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.
- corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackling — the crisp browned skin of roast pork
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- crapelike — resembling crape
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- crinkling — Present participle of crinkle.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- cuckolded — the husband of an unfaithful wife.
- cuckoldly — having the qualities of a cuckold
- cuckoldom — the state of being a cuckold
- cuckoldry — the act of making someone's husband a cuckold.
- cuff link — one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt
- cufflinks — one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deck bolt — a flat-headed bolt for fastening down deck planking.