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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
  • desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
  • desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
  • 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.
  • disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • diskography — discography.
  • dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
  • donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
  • drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
  • folklorists — Plural form of folklorist.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
  • 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
  • forty winks — a short nap.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • george dickGeorge Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
  • goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
  • goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
  • greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
  • ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
  • hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
  • hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • hicky-horse — a seesaw.
  • homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
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