11-letter words containing e, s, k, a, r
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- heatseekers — Plural form of heatseeker.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jackhammers — Plural form of jackhammer.
- james clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
- katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
- 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.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- 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
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kickstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of kickstart.
- killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kleene star — (text) (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- makassarese — a member of a Muslim people of southwestern Sulawesi, near Ujung Pandang, closely related to the Buginese.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.