11-letter words containing k, e, r, n
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- 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.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
- donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkenness — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
- ekman layer — the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- embarkation — The act of embarking.
- embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.