8-letter words containing u, k, c
- checkout — In a supermarket, a checkout is a counter where you pay for things you are buying.
- checksum — a digit representing the number of bits of information transmitted, attached to the end of a message in order to verify the integrity of data
- checkups — Plural form of checkup.
- cheekful — the quantity that can be held in or cover a cheek
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.
- chockful — filled to capacity
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chuck in — to abandon or give up
- chuck up — vomit
- chuckchi — Chukchi.
- chuckers — woodchuck.
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuckled — to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction: They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.
- chuckler — Someone who chuckles.
- chuckles — Plural form of chuckle.
- chukchee — Chukchi.
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- chukkers — Plural form of chukker.
- chunk up — to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chunking — the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- clock up — If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total.
- clucking — Present participle of cluck.
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- clunking — a hard hit, especially on the head.
- cockshut — dusk
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- cocksure — Someone who is cocksure is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- cokernut — coconut.
- conk out — If something such as a machine or a vehicle conks out, it stops working or breaks down.
- conk-out — to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out): The engine conked out halfway there.
- cookouts — Plural form of cookout.
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- crunking — Present participle of crunk.
- cuckolds — Plural form of cuckold.
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- cufflink — Cufflinks are small decorative objects used for holding together shirt cuffs around the wrist.
- cuitikin — a gaiter
- cultlike — resembling a cult
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.