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11-letter words containing k, p, e, l

  • killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
  • kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
  • kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
  • kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
  • klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
  • kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
  • kleptomania — an irresistible impulse to steal, stemming from emotional disturbance rather than economic need.
  • knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
  • knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
  • kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • lake placid — a town in NE New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: resort.
  • lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
  • lassen peak — an active volcano in N California, in the S Cascade Range. 10,465 feet (3190 meters).
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • leucoplakia — 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.
  • leukoplakia — 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.
  • leukoplakic — Relating to leukoplakia.
  • 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.
  • lickspittle — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
  • lock-keeper — A lock-keeper is a person whose job is to be in charge of and maintain a lock or group of locks on a canal.
  • lockkeepers — Plural form of lockkeeper.
  • 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.
  • lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
  • lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
  • magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
  • marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
  • outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
  • panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
  • park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
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