10-letter words containing n, k
- chalk line — a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
- chalkiness — of or like chalk.
- chalkstone — tophus
- change key — a key opening only one lock.
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- check line — a checkrein.
- checkering — Present participle of checker.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- cheekiness — impudent; insolent: a cheeky fellow; cheeky behavior.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
- chemicking — (of textiles) the process of bleaching
- chemokines — Plural form of chemokine.
- chickening — Present participle of chicken.
- chickenpox — Chickenpox is a disease which gives you a high temperature and red spots that itch.
- china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
- china silk — a lightweight silk fabric constructed in plain weave, often used for linings, blouses, slips, etc.
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- clankingly — With a clanking sound.
- class rank — a student's rank among others of the same year based on a numeric grade point average
- cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
- cockneydom — cockneys considered together as a group
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- cocksiness — the state of being cocksy
- coffinlike — Resembling a coffin.
- cold drink — a beverage that is chilled.
- cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
- cool drink — any soft drink
- copperskin — a Native American
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corn stack — corncrib.
- corncockle — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Agrostemma githago, that has reddish-purple flowers and grows in cornfields and by roadsides
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc