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12-letter words containing k, r

  • cackermander — a friend
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • care package — Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
  • career break — If someone takes a career break, they stop working in their particular profession for a period of time, with the intention of returning to it later.
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
  • chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
  • checkerberry — the fruit of any of various plants, esp the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
  • checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
  • chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
  • chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
  • chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
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