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11-letter words containing k, i, l, e

  • kaffir lime — an Asian citrus tree, Citrus hystrix, having green fruit with wrinkly skin and aromatic leaves that are used in Thai and Indonesian cookery.
  • kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
  • kamelaukion — a tall, black, brimless, flat-topped hat, worn by the clergy of the Eastern Church.
  • keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
  • kentia palm — a palm, Howea forsterana, of Lord Howe Island, Australia, having erect leaves, widely cultivated as an ornamental.
  • keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
  • keratolytic — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
  • kewpie doll — a doll having rosy cheeks and a curl of hair on its head
  • khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
  • kill a well — To kill a well is to stop it from flowing by the use of mud or water to stop the pressure.
  • killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
  • killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
  • killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
  • killer cell — any of several types of lymphocyte or leukocyte capable of destroying cells that have acquired foreign characteristics, as a tumor cell or virus-infected cell.
  • killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
  • killifishes — Plural form of killifish.
  • kilocalorie — one thousand small calories. Abbreviation: kcal. Also called Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie. Compare calorie (def 1a).
  • kilometrage — The total distance, in kilometres, travelled.
  • kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
  • kilovoltage — electric potential difference or electromotive force, as measured in kilovolts.
  • kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
  • kinematical — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kinesiology — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
  • kinetically — pertaining to motion.
  • kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
  • king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
  • king's blue — cobalt blue.
  • king's evil — scrofula: so called because it was supposed to be curable by the touch of the reigning sovereign.
  • kitchenalia — cooking equipment and other items found in a kitchen
  • kite flying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
  • kitten heel — a thin, tapering heel on a woman's shoe, lower than a spike heel.
  • kittenishly — In a kittenish manner.
  • klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
  • kleinhuisie — an outside lavatory
  • kleptomania — an irresistible impulse to steal, stemming from emotional disturbance rather than economic need.
  • klieg light — a powerful type of arc light once widely used in motion-picture studios.
  • knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
  • knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
  • kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • kulturkreis — formerly, a complex of related cultural traits assumed to diffuse or radiate outward as a unit in concentric waves or circles.
  • lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
  • lake baikal — a lake in Russia, in SE Siberia: the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia and the deepest in the world. Greatest depth: over 1500 m (5000 ft). Area: about 33 670 sq km (13 000 sq miles)
  • lake kariba — a dam built across the Zambezi for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power; it created Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
  • lake placid — a town in NE New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: resort.
  • lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
  • lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • latticelike — Resembling a lattice.
  • latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
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