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.