9-letter words containing k, o, c
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- cellblock — a group of cells in a prison where prisoners are kept
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- check box — square for marking with a tick
- check off — When you check things off, you check or count them while referring to a list of them, to make sure you have considered all of them.
- check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
- checkbook — a book containing detachable forms for writing checks on a bank
- checkhook — a hook on the saddle of a harness, for holding the end of the checkrein.
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- chemokine — a type of protein produced during inflammation that activates white blood cells
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chinovnik — an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- chokecoil — a type of electronic inductor
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokehold — the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind using one arm
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.