11-letter words containing k, e, r, n
- interlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlink.
- interlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlock.
- irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
- ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- jerome kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- kelly green — a strong yellow-green.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratinized — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinize.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- 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
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)
- kiddie porn — child pornography.
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
- kindhearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kindredship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- kinesimeter — An instrument for the quantitative measurement of movements.
- kinetic art — art, as sculptural constructions, having movable parts activated by motor, wind, hand pressure, or other direct means and often having additional variable elements, as shifting lights.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
- kingfishers — Plural form of kingfisher.
- kings river — a river in central California, flowing S through Kings Canyon to the Tulare reservoir. 125 miles (201 km) long.
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- kite winder — a triangular winder on a staircase.
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kleene star — (text) (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
- knee reflex — an outward reflex kick of the lower leg caused by a sharp tap on the quadriceps tendon just below the patella
- knee-sprung — (of a horse, mule, etc.) having a forward bowing of the knee caused by shortening of the flexor tendons.
- knife river — a river in W central North Dakota, flowing E to the Missouri River. 165 miles (265 km) long.
- knobkerries — Plural form of knobkerry.
- 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.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- know better — be sufficiently wise
- kohanga reo — an infant class in which the lessons are conducted in Māori
- 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.