11-letter words containing k, e, t, o
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- comstockery — immoderate censorship on grounds of immorality
- control key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that is used in conjunction with the standard keys in order to initiate a specific function, such as editing
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- cost keeper — a cost accountant.
- cotton cake — cottonseed meal compressed into nuts or cubes of various sizes for feeding to animals
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- cytokinetic — of or relating to cytokinesis
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
- delta stock — any of the fourth rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange. Market makers need not display prices of these securities continuously and any prices displayed are taken only as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- desert rock — a type of heavy-metal music that has strong country-rock and folk influences
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- deuterotoky — parthenogenesis in which both males and females are produced
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- donkey vote — a vote on a preferential ballot on which the voter's order of preference follows the order in which the candidates are listed
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.