10-letter words containing k, o, t
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- centistoke — one hundredth of a stoke
- chalkstone — tophus
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- cheektooth — any molar or premolar tooth
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- click stop — a control device, as in a camera, that can be turned or rotated so that when it reaches a specific setting it engages with an audible click.
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clock rate — (processor, benchmark) The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- comstocker — a person who practises comstockery
- cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
- cookstoves — Plural form of cookstove.
- corn stack — corncrib.
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cornsticks — Plural form of cornstick.
- cottonwick — a grunt, Haemulon melanurum, of warm Atlantic seas.
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cuckoopint — a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries
- cytokinins — Plural form of cytokinin.
- dead stock — farm equipment
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.