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9-letter words containing a, y, k

  • junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
  • jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
  • kaczynski — Lech. 1949–2010, Polish politician, president of Poland (2005–10)
  • kadiyevka — former name of Stakhanov.
  • kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
  • kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
  • kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
  • kanamycin — An aminoglycoside antibiotic marketed under the trade name Kantrex.
  • kandinsky — Wassily [vas-uh-lee] /ˈvæs ə li/ (Show IPA), or Vasili [vas-uh-lee,, vuh-sil-ee;; Russian vuh-syee-lyee] /ˈvæs ə li,, vəˈsɪl i;; Russian vʌˈsyi lyi/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, Russian painter.
  • karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
  • karyogamy — the fusion of the nuclei of cells, as in fertilization.
  • karyogram — (genetics) A graphical representation of a karyotype.
  • karyology — the study of the structure and function of cell nuclei.
  • karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell nucleus.
  • karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
  • katalyses — catalysis.
  • katalysis — catalysis.
  • katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
  • kayibanda — Grégoire [grey-gwahr;; French grey-gwar] /greɪˈgwɑr;; French greɪˈgwar/ (Show IPA), 1924–76, president of the Republic of Rwanda 1962–73.
  • keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keg party — a beer bust.
  • key frame — (graphics)   A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
  • key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
  • key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
  • key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
  • key stage — any one of four broad age-group divisions (5–7; 7–11; 11–14; 14–16) to which each level of the National Curriculum applies
  • keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
  • keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
  • keynesian — of or relating to the economic theories, doctrines, or policies of Keynes or his followers, especially the policy of maintaining high employment and controlling inflation by varying the interest rates, tax rates, and public expenditure.
  • keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
  • keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
  • killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
  • kirinyaga — the local name of Mount Kenya
  • kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
  • kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
  • knavishly — In a knavish manner.
  • koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
  • kritarchy — Rule by judges.
  • krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
  • kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
  • kulebyaka — coulibiac.
  • kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
  • kyriarchy — A system of
  • kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
  • lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
  • lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
  • lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
  • lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
  • latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
  • lay clerk — lay vicar.
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