12-letter words containing i, k, e
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- dinner knife — a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- energy drink — beverage: added vitamins, etc.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- ferrokinesis — (parapsychology) The ability to mentally manipulate iron and other metals.
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
- first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- foretokening — Indication in advance.