12-letter words containing k, o, r, i, n
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- karyokinesis — mitosis.
- karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
- keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
- kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- kirk session — the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- kitty-corner — diagonal.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- on your bike — away you go
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.