12-letter words containing k, i, n, s
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- 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.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hyperkinesis — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- 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.
- inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- interkinesis — interphase.
- isak dinesen — Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jenghis khan — Genghis Khan.
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- karyokinesis — mitosis.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kidney stone — an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney.
- kill oneself — to overexert oneself
- kinaesthesia — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthesis — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- 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.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- kirk session — the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen sink — basin in kitchen