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11-letter words containing k, i, d, o

  • peak period — the busiest or most popular time
  • picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • smoke-dried — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
  • soldierlike — resembling a soldier
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
  • think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
  • vladivostok — a seaport in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Sea of Japan: eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
  • wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
  • windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
  • window back — woodwork, especially paneling, beneath the stool of a window.
  • wizard book — (publication)   Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
  • woodworking — the act or art of making things of wood.
  • working day — daytime hours occupied by work
  • working dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large, powerful dogs originally developed to assist people in their daily work, as draft animals, guard dogs, and guide dogs, and including the boxer, bullmastiff, Doberman pinscher, Great Dane, St. Bernard, and Siberian Husky.
  • working-day — workaday; everyday.
  • zhoukoudian — the site of fossil-bearing caves near Peking, China, dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use.
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