Phrase Hound found 58 phrases and 81 compound words that contain cook. The most common are listed below. Open cook in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 58
- Cook IslandsAn archipelago and self-governing country in Oceania, in free association with New Zealand.
- cook the booksTo manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
- cook upTo prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
- cook bookAlternative spelling of cookbook: A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- cook up a stormTo do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.
- cook-offA cooking contest.
- Cook Islands MāoriThe official language of the Cook Islands.
- Cook CountyOne of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Adel. Named after Philip Cook.
- Point CookA suburb of Melbourne in the City of Wyndham, Victoria, Australia
- Cook IslanderA person from the Cook Islands or of descent of the Cook Islands.
- cook outAlternative form of cookout: A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.
- cook-houseAlternative form of cookhouse: A small building where cooking takes place.
- cook throughTo cook completely, to cook to the core.
- Cook InletAn inlet in Alaska, United States, connecting the city of Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska.
- Cook StraitA strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand, extending northwest to southeast from the Tasman Sea to the south Pacific Ocean.
- Cook reductionA Turing reduction that runs in polynomial time.
- home-cookTo cook or prepare food at home.
- line cookSynonym of chef de partie: A chef in charge of a particular area of production in the kitchen, such as fish or roast meats.
- cook carA horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.
- Captain CookA look
- cook-chillA method of food preparation in which food is first cooked and then rapidly chilled.
- Cook Islands MaoriAlternative spelling of Cook Islands Māori: The official language of the Cook Islands.
- Cook-Levin theoremA theorem stating that the Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete.
- cold cookAn undertaker.
- cook someone's gooseTo spoil one's plans or hope of success.
Compound words 81
- cookbookA book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- cookeryThe art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
- cooktopAn assembly of burners (that is, eyes or rings) for cooking.
- McCookA surname.
- overcookTo cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
- cookshopA shop that sells cooked food.
- cookoutA gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.
- cookhouseA small building where cooking takes place.
- cookstoveA stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.
- cooksetA set of cooking utensils.