12-letter words containing k, i, t, e, r
- kindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- 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.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- kitty litter — litter (sense 4)
- kitty-corner — diagonal.
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- korea strait — a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- likely story — dubious account
- link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
- make certain — ensure
- make history — do sth of great significance
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- 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.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- plain turkey — a bustard
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes