11-letter words containing k, e, r, a, d
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kickstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of kickstart.
- kierkegaard — Sören Aabye [sœ-ruh n aw-by] /ˈsœ rən ˈɔ bü/ (Show IPA), 1813–55, Danish philosopher and theologian.
- kindhearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- knot garden — an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.
- kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- ladder back — a chair back having a number of horizontal slats between uprights.
- lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
- lake edward — a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Great Rift Valley: empties through the Semliki River into Lake Albert. Area: about 2150 sq km (830 sq miles)
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- liederkranz — a German choral society or singing club, especially of men.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- link loader — linker
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- madder lake — a strong purple-red color.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- market data — Market data is information gathered about the demand for goods, such as the number of units sold, and the value of goods sold.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- nonmarketed — Unmarketed.
- peak period — the busiest or most popular time
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- speed brake — a flap on an aircraft wing used to decrease speed in flight in preparation for landing.
- speed freak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.