12-letter words containing k, e, s
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
- freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
- garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
- genghis khan — 1162–1227, Mongol conqueror of most of Asia and of E Europe to the Dnieper River.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- greenskeeper — a person charged with the care and maintenance of a golf course.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- hare krishna — a religious sect based on Vedic scriptures, whose followers engage in joyful congregational chanting of Krishna's name: founded in the U.S. in 1966.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- 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.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.