13-letter words containing k, i, c
- checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
- checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
- cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicken adder — milk snake.
- chicken divan — a casserole of boned chicken breast, broccoli or asparagus spears, and cheese sauce
- chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
- chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
- chicken snake — rat snake
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- childlikeness — the character of being like a child
- chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- circular-knit — noting, pertaining to, or made of a fabric made by circular knitting.
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
- clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — 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.
- clicketyclack — a rhythmic, metallic sound, as that made by the wheels of a moving train
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- compiler jock — A programmer who specialises in writing compilers.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control stick — the lever by which a pilot controls the lateral and longitudinal movements of an aircraft
- cookie cutter — A cookie cutter is a tool that is used for cutting cookies into a particular shape before you bake them.
- cookie-cutter — having the same configuration or look as many others of a given kind; identical: rows of cookie-cutter houses.
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing