9-letter words containing o, a, k
- 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.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- 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.
- crookback — a hunchback
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- do a bunk — run away
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers