12-letter words containing k, s
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- 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
- casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- 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
- cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
- cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
- 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.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cock a snook — to make a rude gesture by putting one thumb to the nose with the fingers of the hand outstretched
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- cockleshells — Plural form of cockleshell.
- cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
- coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- common stock — Common stock refers to the shares in a company that are owned by people who have a right to vote at the company's meetings and to receive part of the company's profits after the holders of preferred stock have been paid.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.