9-letter words containing o, a, k, c
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- coal sack — a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockatoos — Plural form of cockatoo.
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
- come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- contakion — kontakion.
- cookshack — a makeshift building in which food is cooked
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- core leak — memory leak
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- 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.
- 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.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- coxsackie — Any of several viruses of the genus Enterovirus similar to poliovirus.
- crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.