11-letter words containing k, e, r, p
- free-spoken — given to speaking freely or without reserve; frank; outspoken.
- gamekeepers — Plural form of gamekeeper.
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- greenkeeper — greenskeeper.
- hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- hotelkeeper — a manager or owner of a hotel.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hypermarket — a combined supermarket and department store.
- ink printer — (printer) A retronym used by Blind users to refer to all printers which are not Braille printers, regardless of whether they actually use ink.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- keep kosher — to observe the Jewish dietary laws
- keep stroke — to make strokes in rhythm
- keeper hook — an S -shaped hook for securing doors, windows, etc., or for fastening a batten to a flat.
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- kerb appeal — the attractiveness to potential buyers of a house when viewed from the road
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kiddie porn — child pornography.
- killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
- kindredship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knee-sprung — (of a horse, mule, etc.) having a forward bowing of the knee caused by shortening of the flexor tendons.
- krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- lock-keeper — A lock-keeper is a person whose job is to be in charge of and maintain a lock or group of locks on a canal.
- lockkeepers — Plural form of lockkeeper.
- 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.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- make up for — compensate
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marking pen — marker (def 10).
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.