11-letter words containing k, e
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cache block — cache line
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
- cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check digit — a digit derived from and appended to a string of data digits, used to detect corruption of the data string during transmission or transcription
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow
- checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checksheets — Plural form of checksheet.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.