12-letter words containing k, i
- 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
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- 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.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- 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.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
- deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- dinner knife — a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
- dirty tricks — underhand activities and machinations in political or governmental affairs, usually intended to discredit an opponent
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk