12-letter words containing d, e, k
- kind hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- 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.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- 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 headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
- market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.