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11-letter words containing k, n, a, g

  • risk-taking — courting danger or loss
  • rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • sick-making — making one feel jealous
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
  • tank engine — locomotive train
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • think again — reconsider sth
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
  • tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
  • trafficking — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
  • unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
  • undertaking — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
  • walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
  • warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
  • watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
  • waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
  • weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
  • weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
  • working day — daytime hours occupied by work
  • working-day — workaday; everyday.
  • zhangjiakou — a city in NW Hebei province, in NE China: capital of the former Qahar province.
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