11-letter words containing e, n, k
- in the tank — a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
- in token of — something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
- indian poke — false hellebore.
- ink printer — (printer) A retronym used by Blind users to refer to all printers which are not Braille printers, regardless of whether they actually use ink.
- inky smudge — a judge
- interbroker — relating to interbroker dealers or their work
- interleukin — Any of a class of glycoproteins produced by leukocytes for regulating immune responses.
- interlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlink.
- interlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlock.
- irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
- ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- jerome kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- joukahainen — a Lapp magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- kamelaukion — a tall, black, brimless, flat-topped hat, worn by the clergy of the Eastern Church.
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keelboatman — a member of the crew of a keelboat.
- keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
- kelly green — a strong yellow-green.
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- kenogenesis — Alternative form of caenogenesis.
- kente cloth — a fabric made esp. in Ghana, woven in strips of brightly patterned bands interspersed with bands of black
- kentia palm — a palm, Howea forsterana, of Lord Howe Island, Australia, having erect leaves, widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratinized — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinize.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- ketogenesis — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- ketone body — any of three compounds, acetoacetic acid, beta-hydroxybutyric acid, or acetone, that are intermediate in the metabolism of fatty acids and that are found in abnormal quantities in the blood and urine during certain pathological conditions, as diabetes mellitus.
- ketopentose — (carbohydrate) A pentose that is also a ketose.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- key (in) on — to focus one's attention, effort, etc. on
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- kiddie porn — child pornography.
- kidney bean — a common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivated in many varieties for its edible seeds and pods.
- kidney dish — medical: curved basin