12-letter words containing k, i, t
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- book society — book club.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- buck private — a common soldier
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
- captain jack — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
- 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
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.