12-letter words containing d, a, n, k
- kind-hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kindergarden — (non-standard) misspelling of kindergarten.
- kindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- kith and kin — friends and family
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- kristiansand — a seaport in S Norway.
- kristianstad — a town in S Sweden: founded in 1614 as a Danish fortress, it was finally acquired by Sweden in 1678. Pop: 75 590 (2004 est)
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
- make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
- make friends — get to know people
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
- network card — network interface controller
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes
- red kangaroo — a large Australian kangaroo, Macropus rufus, the male of which has a reddish coat
- rock and rye — a bottled drink made with rye whiskey, rock candy, and fruit.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily