9-letter words containing k, i, l, e
- ice block — a flavoured frozen water ice: in Australia and New Zealand, sometimes on a stick
- iceblinks — Plural form of iceblink.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- immokalee — a town in S Florida.
- inglenook — a corner or nook near a fireplace; chimney corner.
- interlink — to link, one with another.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- invokable — (computing) That can be invoked; callable.
- irish elk — an extinct deerlike mammal of the genus Megaceros (Megaloceros), of the Pleistocene Epoch, having in the male extremely large, broad antlers.
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jellylike — a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
- jerkingly — in a jerking manner
- jewellike — Resembling a jewel or some aspect of one.
- jive talk — black American slang
- judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- kalsomine — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- kaolinite — a very common mineral, hydrated aluminum disilicate, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 (OH) 4 , formed by the alteration of other minerals, especially feldspar: the most common constituent of kaolin.
- kaolinize — to convert (minerals containing kaolinite) into kaolin by weathering.
- kapil dev — (Ramlal) Nikhanj (nɪˈkændʒ). born 1959, Indian cricketer: an all-rounder, he played in 131 test matches and captained India to victory in the 1983 World Cup
- kei-apple — a thorny shrub or small tree, Dovyalis caffra, of southern Africa, having round, yellow, juicy-pulped, cranberry-flavored fruit that is edible only when cooked.
- kerneling — the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
- kerrville — a town in SW Texas.
- ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- key field — (database) A field of a database (typically a relational database) table which together form a unique identifier for a record (a table entry). The aggregate of these fields is usually referred to simply as "the key".
- key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
- keyclicks — Plural form of keyclick.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kickwheel — a potter's wheel rotated by kicking.
- kid glove — a glove made of kid leather.
- kielbasas — Plural form of kielbasa.
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- kilderkin — a unit of capacity, usually equal to half a barrel or two firkins.
- kill file — [Usenet] Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media. See also plonk.
- kill time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- kill-time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- killfiled — Simple past tense and past participle of killfile.
- killfiles — Plural form of killfile.
- kilobytes — Plural form of kilobyte.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kilocycle — a unit equal to 1000 cycles: used especially in radio as 1000 cycles per second for expressing the frequency of electromagnetic waves; kilohertz. The term kilohertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: kc.
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- kilojoule — An SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 joules.
- kiloliter — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.
- kilolitre — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.