11-letter words containing k, i, e, s
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
- cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- disc jockey — a person who conducts a radio broadcast consisting of recorded music, informal talk, commercial announcements, etc.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- disk jockey — radio host
- disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
- dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
- dislikeness — disparity
- dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
- dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- eksi sozluk — (web) ("Sour Dictionary") An online, Turkish, colaborative, hypertext dictionary.
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
- enniskillen — a town in SW Northern Ireland, in Fermanagh, on an island in the River Erne: scene of the defeat of James II's forces in 1689. Pop: 13 599 (2001)
- eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- ferntickles — freckles
- fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
- fish kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.