12-letter words containing k, e, w
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- keep in with — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep up with — go as fast
- kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- kiddiewinkie — a child
- killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- little-known — not widely known; not famed
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- need-to-know — done or given only when it is essential that someone knows something
- needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".
- network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.