11-letter words containing k, i
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- comstockism — the practice of immoderately censoring on grounds of immorality
- connie mack — Connie [kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/ (Show IPA), (Cornelius McGillicuddy) 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- cook strait — the strait between North and South Islands, New Zealand. Width: 26 km (16 miles)
- cookie bear — cookie monster
- cookie file — (operating system) A collection of fortune cookies in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program. There are many cookie files in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources.
- cooking oil — a type of oil used for cooking food
- copying ink — a special ink used for writing when copies by impression are to be taken
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
- corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
- 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
- cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- cytokinetic — of or relating to cytokinesis
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- dialkylzinc — (organic chemistry) Any organometallic compound of zinc containing two alkyl groups.
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably