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12-letter words containing d, a, n, k

  • dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
  • dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
  • don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • drinks party — a cocktail party
  • dynamic link — (compiler)   A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • hand-picking — to pick by hand.
  • handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • hard linking — hard link
  • hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
  • headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
  • indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • isak dinesen — Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • jack-a-dandy — dandy (def 1).
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • kangaroo dog — an Australian breed of large rough-haired dog that resembles a greyhound and is bred to hunt kangaroos
  • kath and kim — a personification of the White population of middle Australia
  • kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • kind hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
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