12-letter words containing k, i, o
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- 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.
- chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
- 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.
- 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
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.