10-letter words containing k, e, r, a
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
- chargeback — the return of funds by a seller to a buyer's debit or credit card account
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- check card — debit card.
- check mark — A check mark is a written mark like a V with the right side extended. It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with.
- check rail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
- clock rate — (processor, benchmark) The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
- clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- crakeberry — The crowberry.
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.