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12-letter words containing d, k

  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
  • dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
  • drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • drinks party — a cocktail party
  • drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
  • dusky grouse — blue grouse.
  • duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
  • 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).
  • endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
  • energy drink — beverage: added vitamins, etc.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
  • franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
  • frederick ii — Frederick I (def 2).
  • frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
  • frederick ix — (Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg) 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72.
  • fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • get knotted! — used as a response to express disapproval or rejection
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • good-looking — of good or attractive appearance; handsome or beautiful: a good-looking young man; a good-looking hat.
  • 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.
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • greeked text — words which appear on screen as grey lines when the type size is too small for actual letters to be shown
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • 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.
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