12-letter words containing k, i, s, n, g
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- 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.
- 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.
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- missing link — a hypothetical form of animal assumed to have constituted a connecting link between the anthropoid apes and humans, identified by some authorities as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- mogul skiing — a skiing event in which skiers descend a slope which is covered in mounds of snow, making two jumps during the descent
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- rent-seeking — the act or process of using one’s assets and resources to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.