10-letter words containing k, i, l, e
- cherrylike — Resembling a cherry, such as in shape, color, or flavor.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- choke coil — an inductor used to limit or suppress alternating current without stopping direct current
- christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- circlejerk — Alternative spelling of circle jerk.
- city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
- cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.
- clerk-like — acting in a scholarly manner
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- clump-like — resembling a clump
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- coffinlike — Resembling a coffin.
- cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
- cookeville — a town in central Tennessee.
- cookieless — Without cookies (the food).
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- desertlike — a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dickcissel — a small North American bird (Spiza americana), the male of which has a yellow breast, a black patch on its throat, and a mainly grey head
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
- dislikeful — with dislike
- distelfink — a stylized bird motif traditional in Pennsylvania German art.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- dull knife — (Tah-me-la-pash-me) died 1883, leader of the Northern Cheyenne.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
- enkindling — Present participle of enkindle.