11-letter words containing k
- carjackings — Plural form of carjacking.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
- cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
- cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- charm quark — charmed quark
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check digit — a digit derived from and appended to a string of data digits, used to detect corruption of the data string during transmission or transcription
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow
- checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checksheets — Plural form of checksheet.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesecakes — Plural form of cheesecake.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.