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11-letter words containing k, o, c

  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
  • casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
  • checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
  • checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
  • cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
  • cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
  • cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
  • chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
  • cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
  • chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
  • 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.
  • chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
  • 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.
  • chokecherry — any of several North American species of cherry, esp Prunus virginiana, having very astringent dark red or black fruit
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
  • chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  • chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
  • chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
  • church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • 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 radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
  • clock speed — clock rate
  • clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
  • clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
  • clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
  • clock-timer — timer (def 4).
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • cock's-foot — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
  • cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
  • cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
  • cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
  • cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
  • cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
  • cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
  • cockeye bob — a sudden storm or cyclone
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