11-letter words containing k, y
- eye make-up — cosmetics for the eyes, such as mascara and eyeliner
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feature key — (hardware) (Or "flower", "pretzel", "clover", "propeller", "beanie" (from propeller beanie), splat, "command key") The Macintosh modifier key with the four-leaf clover graphic on its keytop. The feature key is the Mac's equivalent of a control key (and so labelled on some Mac II keyboards). The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate one subtle peril of iconic interfaces. Macs also have an "Option" modifier key, equivalent to Alt. The cloverleaf-like symbol's oldest name is "cross of St. Hannes", but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative motif. In Scandinavia it marks sites of historical interest. An early Macintosh developer who happened to be Swedish introduced it to Apple. Apple documentation gives the translation "interesting feature". The symbol has a Unicode character called "PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN" (U+2318), previously known as "command key". The Swedish name of this symbol stands for the word "sev"ardhet" (interesting feature), many of which are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for it the word "kyrka", cognate to English "church" and Scots-dialect "kirk" but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense.
- floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- folk memory — the memory of past events as preserved in a community
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- forty winks — a short nap.
- gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
- granny knot — a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam
- gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
- hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- herky-jerky — progressing in a fitfully jerky or irregular manner: a herky-jerky home movie shown on an old projector.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hokey cokey — a Cockney song with a traditional dance routine to match the words
- hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hypermarket — a combined supermarket and department store.
- hypokalemia — an abnormally low concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hypokalemic — Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinesis — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinetic — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- if you like — You say if you like when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
- inky smudge — a judge
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- iykwimaityd — if you know what I mean and I think you do
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
- kaffir lily — clivia.
- kailyardism — kaleyard school.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.