11-letter words containing k, i, s
- bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
- carjackings — Plural form of carjacking.
- carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
- cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- clicktivism — a policy of using the internet to take direct and often militant action to achieve a political or social aim
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- comstockism — the practice of immoderately censoring on grounds of immorality
- cook strait — the strait between North and South Islands, New Zealand. Width: 26 km (16 miles)
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface