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12-letter words containing k, i, c

  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
  • chickahominy — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Powhatan confederacy that inhabited eastern Virginia.
  • chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
  • chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
  • chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
  • chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
  • chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
  • city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
  • 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.
  • click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
  • clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
  • clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
  • clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
  • clickthrough — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
  • cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
  • cockieleekie — a soup made from a fowl boiled with leeks
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
  • cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
  • coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
  • cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
  • computerlike — similar to a computer
  • cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
  • cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
  • cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
  • cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
  • cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
  • cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
  • countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
  • country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
  • courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
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