12-letter words containing k, e, s
- carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
- casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
- cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- 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 shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- cockleshells — Plural form of cockleshell.
- cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
- coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
- 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.
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- 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.
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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.
- cuckoo's egg — The Cuckoo's Egg
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cypress knee — one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.