12-letter words containing k, i, n, g
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- hard linking — hard link
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- high-ranking — A high-ranking person has an important position in a particular organization.
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home cooking — home-made food
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
- ignition key — key that starts an engine
- in good nick — in good condition
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- interlinking — Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jenghis khan — Genghis Khan.
- jenghiz khan — Genghis Khan
- jickajogging — the act of moving in a jogging or rolling motion
- joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- kindergarden — (non-standard) misspelling of kindergarten.
- kindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king penguin — a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, found on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.