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11-letter words containing k, n, e, c

  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
  • chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
  • chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
  • chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
  • chimneylike — resembling a chimney
  • chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
  • command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • congo snake — any of several eel-shaped salamanders, as the amphiuma or siren.
  • connie mack — Connie [kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/ (Show IPA), (Cornelius McGillicuddy) 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
  • control key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that is used in conjunction with the standard keys in order to initiate a specific function, such as editing
  • coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
  • corn cockle — a tall annual weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family, with flat, pinkish flowers and poisonous seeds, often found in grainfields
  • corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
  • corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
  • corncockles — Plural form of corncockle.
  • corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
  • corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
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