11-letter words containing k, i, t
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- break it up — stop fighting
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- brotherlike — like a brother
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- 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
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- clicktivism — a policy of using the internet to take direct and often militant action to achieve a political or social aim
- clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- comstockism — the practice of immoderately censoring on grounds of immorality
- cook strait — the strait between North and South Islands, New Zealand. Width: 26 km (16 miles)
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket