11-letter words containing a, d, o, r, k
- k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- keratoderma — a disease of the horny layer of the skin, especially of the soles or palms.
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- knot garden — an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.
- kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- link loader — linker
- look around — examine surrounding area
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nonmarketed — Unmarketed.
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- peak period — the busiest or most popular time
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
- tracker dog — canine trained to detect
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard