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12-letter words containing k, i

  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • 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 bend — type of knot
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
  • casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
  • 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
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • 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
  • changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
  • charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
  • checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • 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.
  • chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
  • chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
  • chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
  • chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
  • 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.
  • 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
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