11-letter words containing e, s, k, i
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- french kiss — kiss with tongues
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- high-stakes — A high-stakes game or contest is one in which the people involved can gain or lose a great deal.
- hitchhikers — Plural form of hitchhiker.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinesis — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
- ijssel lake — a shallow lake in the NW Netherlands; formed from the S part of the Zuider Zee by the construction of the IJsselmeer Dam in 1932; salt water gradually replaced by fresh water from the IJssel River; fisheries (formerly marine fish, now esp eels). Area: (before reclamation) 3690 sq km (1425 sq miles). Estimated final area: 1243 sq km (480 sq miles)
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- inky smudge — a judge
- irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
- ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- 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.
- 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.
- kenogenesis — Alternative form of caenogenesis.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- 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.
- ketosteroid — any of a group of steroids containing a ketone group.
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.