11-letter words containing o, k, e, c
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cache block — cache line
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
- carrot cake — a sweet cake made with grated carrots
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokecherry — any of several North American species of cherry, esp Prunus virginiana, having very astringent dark red or black fruit
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockeye bob — a sudden storm or cyclone
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.