10-letter words containing e, s, k, i
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kings peak — a mountain in NE Utah: highest peak in the Uinta Mountains. 13,528 feet (4123 meters).
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kingsville — a city in S Texas.
- kinsperson — A kinsman or kinswoman.
- kirksville — a city in N Missouri.
- kisspeptin — a protein molecule that is responsible for triggering the onset of puberty in humans
- kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
- kitesurfer — A person who kitesurfs.
- kitschiest — Superlative form of kitschy.
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kline test — a test for syphilis in which the formation of a microscopic precipitate in a mixture of the patient's serum and an antigen indicates a syphilitic condition.
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knackiness — the quality or condition of being knacky
- knagginess — the state or quality of being knaggy or knotty
- knife rest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knottiness — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- koeksister — (South Africa) A traditional Malay confection consisting of a deep-fried twisted or plaited doughnut dipped in syrup immediately after cooking.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kolinskies — Plural form of kolinsky.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- kriegspiel — (sometimes initial capital letter) a game using small figures and counters that represent troops, ships, etc., played on a map or miniature battlefield, developed for teaching military tactics to officers.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- like sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
- like stink — intensely; furiously
- likeliness — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- likenesses — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- lookalikes — Plural form of lookalike.
- lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
- make as if — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- maskinonge — muskellunge.
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- miccosukee — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- milk shake — a frothy drink made of cold milk, flavoring, and usually ice cream, shaken together or blended in a mixer.
- milk snake — a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes