12-letter words containing k, o, c
- 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
- cooper creek — an intermittent river in E central Australia, in the Channel Country: rises in central Queensland and flows generally southwest, reaching Lake Eyre only during wet-year floods; scene of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861; the surrounding basin provides cattle pastures after the floods subside. Total length: 1420 km (880 miles)
- 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
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- country folk — people who live in the country
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- country rock — the rock surrounding a mineral vein or igneous intrusion
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crack a joke — make a funny remark
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cuckoo clock — A cuckoo clock is a clock with a door from which a toy cuckoo comes out and makes noises like a cuckoo every hour or half hour.
- cuckoo's egg — The Cuckoo's Egg
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- 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.
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.