12-letter words containing d, i, k
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- 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.
- kith and kin — friends and family
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- 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.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- 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.
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- 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.
- madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- 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
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- 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.
- minidiskette — Alternative spelling of mini-diskette.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- multiskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy