11-letter words containing a, s, k, n
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jack salmon — walleye (def 1).
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- kalashnikov — A Kalashnikov is a type of rifle that is made in Russia.
- kalsomining — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- kapuskasing — a town in central Ontario, in S Canada.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- kazantzakis — Nikos [nee-kaws] /ˈni kɔs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1957, Greek poet and novelist.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- kidnappings — Plural form of kidnapping.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- kinesthesia — the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- king salmon — chinook salmon.
- king's mark — one of the marks composing a hallmark, consisting of the head of a leopard, formerly a crowned head.
- kinsmanship — Kinship.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kleene star — (text) (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knavishness — The quality of being knavish.
- knee spavin — chronic inflammation of the carpal joint of a horse
- knickknacks — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- 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.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).