12-letter words containing k, a, d
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
- cackermander — a friend
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- carrick bend — type of knot
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk