12-letter words containing k, o, r, n
- 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.
- lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
- leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- 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.
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- lover's knot — love knot.
- 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.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- 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.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- modern greek — the Greek language since c1500. Abbreviation: ModGk.
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- 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.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".
- network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- 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.
- north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- north korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on your bike — away you go
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line