9-letter words containing a, l, k
- call back — If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you.
- callbacks — Plural form of callback.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camellike — resembling a camel
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cell pack — a container made of cellular plastic, as one used for holding flowers or plants.
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chainlink — Wires woven in a zig-zag pattern.
- chakalaka — a relish made from tomatoes, onions, and spices
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chalkface — the work or art of teaching in a school, esp classroom teaching as distinct from organizational responsibilities (esp in the phrase at the chalkface)
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- chalkrail — a troughlike molding or strip holding chalk, erasers, etc., under a blackboard.
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clam-like — resembling a clam
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
- clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coal sack — a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- 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.
- 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.
- core leak — memory leak
- 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
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackling — the crisp browned skin of roast pork