10-letter words containing r, a, k
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- 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.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- crack baby — an infant, typically born prematurely, with a condition caused by the excessive consumption of crack cocaine by the mother during pregnancy and characterized by malformations and learning disabilities
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackajack — crackerjack
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
- crackbrain — a person who is insane
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cracklings — Plural form of crackling.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- crakeberry — The crowberry.
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form