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11-letter words containing k, p, c

  • 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.
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clock speed — clock rate
  • cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • copying ink — a special ink used for writing when copies by impression are to be taken
  • cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
  • 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
  • cost keeper — a cost accountant.
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
  • cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
  • cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
  • cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
  • cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
  • cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
  • data packet — packet
  • deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
  • desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
  • dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
  • doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
  • donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
  • duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
  • duck typing — (programming)   A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • escape cock — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
  • fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
  • fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
  • flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
  • flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
  • forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
  • hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
  • hand-picked — to pick by hand.
  • handpicking — to pick by hand.
  • heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
  • hop-picking — the activity of picking hops
  • http cookie — (web)   A small string of information sent by a web server to a web browser that will be sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies were invented by Netscape to make it easier to maintain state between HTTP transactions. They can contain any arbitrary information the server chooses to put in them. The most common use of cookies is to identify and authenticate a user who has logged in to a website, so they don't have to sign in every time they visit. Other example uses are maintaining a shopping basket of goods you have selected to purchase during a session at an online shop or site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users). The browser limits the size of each cookie and the number each server can store. This prevents a malicious site consuming lots of disk space on the user's computer. The only information that cookies can return to the server is what that server previously sent out. The main privacy concern is that it is not obvious when a site is using cookies or what for. Even if you don't log in or supply any personal information to a site, it can still assign you a unique identifier and store it in a "tracking cookie". This can then be used to track every page you ever visit on the site. However, since it is possible to do the same thing without cookies, the UK law requiring sites to declare their use of cookies makes little sense and has been widely ignored. After using a shared computer, e.g. in an Internet cafe, you should remove all cookies to prevent the browser identifying the next user as you if they happen to visit the same sites.
  • humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
  • hypokalemic — Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hypokinetic — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
  • in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
  • jack-up rig — an offshore drill rig or platform having a floating hull fitted with retractable legs that can be lowered to the seabed to elevate the hull above wave level.
  • jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
  • jackpudding — An amusing person who acts foolishly in order to entertain people.
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