11-letter words containing k, i, d, n
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- 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.
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- fair dinkum — dinkum.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fruit drink — a (non-alcoholic) beverage made from fruit
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- handpicking — to pick by hand.
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- high-necked — (of a garment) high at the neck.
- hoodwinking — Present participle of hoodwink.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
- indian poke — false hellebore.
- inky smudge — a judge
- interlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlink.
- interlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlock.
- jackpudding — An amusing person who acts foolishly in order to entertain people.
- k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- kainic acid — an analogue of glutamate, C 10 H 15 NO 4 , derived from the red alga Digenia simplex, used experimentally to stimulate certain neurons in the brain.
- kaliningrad — a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratinized — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinize.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kiddie porn — child pornography.
- kidnappings — Plural form of kidnapping.
- kidney bean — a common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivated in many varieties for its edible seeds and pods.
- kidney dish — medical: curved basin