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11-letter words containing g, e, k, i, n

  • overlooking — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • re-skinning — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • ring-necked — having a ring of distinctive color around the neck.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • rock pigeon — rock dove.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • tank engine — locomotive train
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the gherkin — the nickname of a bluish cigar-shaped office block in the City of London; height 180 m (585 ft); opened in in 2004
  • the-knights — a comedy (424 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • tiggywinkle — a gene found in fish and belonging to a family of genes known as the Hedgehog family
  • timekeeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
  • unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
  • undertaking — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
  • waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
  • weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
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