11-letter words containing k
- chick flick — A chick flick is a romantic film that is not very serious and is intended to appeal to women.
- chickabiddy — a term of endearment, esp for a child
- chickamauga — creek in NW Ga.: site of a Civil War battle (Sept., 1863) in which Confederate forces routed the Union army
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chikungunya — A viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
- chimneylike — resembling a chimney
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokecherry — any of several North American species of cherry, esp Prunus virginiana, having very astringent dark red or black fruit
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- 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.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chucklingly — In a chuckling manner.
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- circle jerk — mutual masturbation among three or more persons.
- clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
- clackmannan — a town in E central Scotland, in Clackmannanshire. Pop: 3450 (2001)
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- clicktivism — a policy of using the internet to take direct and often militant action to achieve a political or social aim
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.