11-letter words containing k, o, s, i
- konigshutte — German name of Chorzów.
- koulibiacas — Plural form of koulibiaca.
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- leukoplasia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.
- leukotomies — Plural form of leukotomy.
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
- lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- magic smoke — (electronics, humour) A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
- masson disk — a white disk on which a series of concentric gray circles appear to vanish intermittently when the disk is rotated, used for testing a person's fluctuation of attention and visual threshold.
- microskirts — Plural form of microskirt.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- monkey fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- noisemaking — The production of noise.
- non-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- non-smoking — where smoking is not permitted
- non-striker — a person or thing that strikes.
- nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
- nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- nonstrikers — Plural form of nonstriker.
- novosibirsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ob.
- onside kick — a kickoff deliberately kicked a short distance in an attempt by the kicking team to regain possession of the ball by recovering it after it has traveled forward the legally required distance of 10 yards, beyond the 50-yard line.
- opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
- pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
- pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prusik loop — a loop formed with a sliding knot that locks under pressure in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.