11-letter words containing k
- corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
- corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- cost keeper — a cost accountant.
- cotton cake — cottonseed meal compressed into nuts or cubes of various sizes for feeding to animals
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
- cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- crackerjack — Someone or something that is crackerjack is excellent or of very high quality.
- crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crankshafts — Plural form of crankshaft.
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- croker sack — a bag made of burlap or similar material
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cross-check — If you cross-check information, you check that it is correct using a different method or source from the one originally used to obtain it.
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc