11-letter words containing k, o, s, r, a, e
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop