12-letter words containing n, e, k, i
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
- 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.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
- chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- 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
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
- deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- dinner knife — a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.