11-letter words containing k, s, t, a
- kleene star — (text) (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- market test — If a company carries out a market test, it asks a group of people to try a new product or service and give their opinions on it.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- mass market — general public
- mass-market — (of products) produced and distributed in large quantities and intended to appeal to the widest range of consumers.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- mess jacket — a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
- meter marks — special markings stamped onto privately franked mail by a machine
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistracking — track system.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- nutty slack — coal
- 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
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- painstaking — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.