11-letter words containing k, o, n, d
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- fork-tender — (of food, especially meat) cooked so that it can be cut or pierced easily with a fork.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frankenfood — (colloquial, derogatory) genetically modified food.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hoodwinking — Present participle of hoodwink.
- horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
- indian poke — false hellebore.
- interlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of interlock.
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- ketone body — any of three compounds, acetoacetic acid, beta-hydroxybutyric acid, or acetone, that are intermediate in the metabolism of fatty acids and that are found in abnormal quantities in the blood and urine during certain pathological conditions, as diabetes mellitus.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kiddie porn — child pornography.
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- knighthoods — Plural form of knighthood.
- knock-kneed — Someone who is knock-kneed has legs which turn inwards at the knees.
- knocked out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knot garden — an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.
- knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.