12-letter words containing k, e, r, o
- 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.
- chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
- checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- 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.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- coffee maker — Also, coffeemaker. an apparatus for brewing coffee; coffeepot.
- coffee-maker — a domestic appliance that makes coffee
- coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- 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
- cookery book — A cookery book is the same as a cookbook.
- cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
- cooper creek — an intermittent river in E central Australia, in the Channel Country: rises in central Queensland and flows generally southwest, reaching Lake Eyre only during wet-year floods; scene of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861; the surrounding basin provides cattle pastures after the floods subside. Total length: 1420 km (880 miles)
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crack a joke — make a funny remark
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.