12-letter words containing k, i, n, g
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- energy drink — beverage: added vitamins, etc.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- folk singing — the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.
- foretokening — Indication in advance.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- galligaskins — loose hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- gallygaskins — galligaskins.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- genghis khan — 1162–1227, Mongol conqueror of most of Asia and of E Europe to the Dnieper River.
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- good-looking — of good or attractive appearance; handsome or beautiful: a good-looking young man; a good-looking hat.
- gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
- grass skiing — turfskiing.
- graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances