13-letter words containing k, i, o
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- break it down — stop it
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- bring to book — to reprimand or require (someone) to give an explanation of his conduct
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
- capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
- checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
- chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- 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.
- 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 cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.