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11-letter words containing k, i, w

  • kill a well — To kill a well is to stop it from flowing by the use of mud or water to stop the pressure.
  • kill switch — a button, switch, or other mechanism that allows a machine to be shut down immediately: Only use the kill switch in emergencies.
  • killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
  • kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
  • kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
  • kite winder — a triangular winder on a staircase.
  • know it all — a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
  • know-it-all — a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
  • knowability — capable of being known.
  • knowingness — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
  • knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
  • kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
  • kwasniewski — Aleksander [ah-lek-sahn-der] /ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1954, Polish journalist and politician: president of Poland 1995–.
  • lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
  • latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
  • mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • motion work — clockwork by which the hour hand is driven from the shaft of the minute hand.
  • new kingdom — a period of Egyptian history, extending from the 18th to the 20th dynasty (?1570–?1080 bc)
  • new wrinkle — innovation
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • non-working — not employed for a salary, fees, or wages; not producing or generating income: Our employee medical plan also covers nonworking spouses.
  • office work — work normally carried out in an office, for example clerical or administrative work for an organization
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • quickwitted — Alternative spelling of quick-witted.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
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