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11-letter words that end in k

  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
  • by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cache block — cache line
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
  • canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
  • cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
  • castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
  • castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
  • casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • charm quark — charmed quark
  • checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
  • cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
  • 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.
  • chick flick — A chick flick is a romantic film that is not very serious and is intended to appeal to women.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
  • chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
  • church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • circle jerk — mutual masturbation among three or more persons.
  • clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
  • closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
  • clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • connie mack — Connie [kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/ (Show IPA), (Cornelius McGillicuddy) 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
  • copying ink — a special ink used for writing when copies by impression are to be taken
  • corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
  • corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
  • countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
  • countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
  • countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
  • countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
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