11-letter words containing k, e, d
- code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
- cooked mode — The normalUnix character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver. Opposite of raw mode. See also rare mode. Other operating systems often have similar mode distinctions, and the raw/rare/cooked way of describing them has spread widely along with the C language and other Unix exports. Most generally, "cooked mode" may refer to any mode of a system that does extensive preprocessing before presenting data to a program.
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cutter deck — the blade housing on a power mower.
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
- dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- data packet — packet
- de seversky — Alexander P(rocofieff)1894-1974; U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
- deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- death knell — something that heralds death or destruction
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
- deck-access — (of a block of flats) having a continuous inset balcony at each level onto which the front door of each flat on that level opens
- deckle edge — the rough edge of handmade paper, caused by pulp seeping between the mould and the deckle: often left as ornamentation in fine books and writing papers
- deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
- deerstalker — A deerstalker is an old-fashioned hat with parts at the sides which can be folded down to cover the ears. Deerstalkers are usually worn by men.
- delta stock — any of the fourth rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange. Market makers need not display prices of these securities continuously and any prices displayed are taken only as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- desert rock — a type of heavy-metal music that has strong country-rock and folk influences
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- desk jobber — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- desk jockey — an office worker who sits at a desk, often as contrasted with someone who does more important or active work: desk jockeys at the CIA.
- deuterotoky — parthenogenesis in which both males and females are produced
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung