9-letter words containing n, o, k
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- cankerous — having cankers
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- chemokine — a type of protein produced during inflammation that activates white blood cells
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chinovnik — an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clownlike — Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cockiness — conceited self-assurance
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cockneyfy — to cause (one's speech, manners, etc) to fit the stereotyped idea of a cockney
- cockswain — coxswain
- coin lock — a lock that is opened by the insertion of a coin.
- coke oven — an oven in which coal is converted into coke
- con trick — swindle
- contakion — kontakion.
- cookstown — a district of central Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 33 387 (2003 est). Area: 622 sq km (240 sq miles)
- cooldrink — (South Africa) soft drink.
- coonskins — Plural form of coonskin.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- corkiness — the state of being corky
- corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- cornstick — a corn muffin baked in the form of a small ear of corn.
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck