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11-letter words containing a, k, i

  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • diefenbakerJohn George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
  • diskography — discography.
  • dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
  • dockization — the process of turning into docks
  • dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
  • e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
  • enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
  • epimanikion — Cuffs worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other catholic churches.
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
  • fair dinkum — dinkum.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • film-making — the activity or business of producing and directing films
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
  • finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
  • fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
  • flake white — lead white.
  • flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
  • franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
  • fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
  • furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
  • gamekeeping — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
  • gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
  • garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
  • gatekeeping — The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
  • gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
  • gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
  • gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
  • give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
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