11-letter words containing k, o, n
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- 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.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- don cossack — a member of the eastern branch of the Cossacks, living along the Don
- don't knows — people who have not reached a definite opinion on a subject, esp as a response to a questionnaire
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- 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 vote — a vote on a preferential ballot on which the voter's order of preference follows the order in which the candidates are listed
- donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- 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.
- 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.
- eton jacket — a waist-length jacket with a V-shaped back, open in front, formerly worn by pupils of Eton College
- exoskeleton — A rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- fork-tender — (of food, especially meat) cooked so that it can be cut or pierced easily with a fork.