11-letter words containing k, n, e, c
- peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- quick money — money that you make easily or quickly
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- ring-necked — having a ring of distinctive color around the neck.
- rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sickishness — the state of being sickish
- sienkiewicz — Henryk [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1905.
- silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- 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.
- sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
- skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
- skin-search — strip-search.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.