12-letter words containing k, e, d
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- get knotted! — used as a response to express disapproval or rejection
- gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
- greeked text — words which appear on screen as grey lines when the type size is too small for actual letters to be shown
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydrocracker — a high-pressure processing unit used for hydrocracking.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- index-linked — index (def 25).
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- isak dinesen — Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- keep in mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
- kenny method — a method of treating poliomyelitis, in which hot, moist packs are applied to affected muscles to relieve spasms and pain, and a regimen of exercises is prescribed to prevent deformities and to strengthen the muscles.
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiddiewinkie — a child
- kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kidney stone — an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.