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11-letter words containing k, o, n, i

  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
  • cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
  • cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • connie mack — Connie [kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/ (Show IPA), (Cornelius McGillicuddy) 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
  • cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
  • 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
  • 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
  • deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
  • 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
  • dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
  • disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
  • dockization — the process of turning into docks
  • dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
  • dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
  • donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
  • donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
  • double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • 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.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
  • epimanikion — Cuffs worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other catholic churches.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
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