11-letter words containing k, y
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- make hay of — to throw into confusion
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mark antony — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- mickey finn — Also called Mickey Finn. Slang. a drink, usually alcoholic, to which a drug, purgative, or the like, has been secretly added, that renders the unsuspecting drinker helpless.
- milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mollydooker — (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- 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.
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- moneymaking — profitable: a moneymaking scheme.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monkey sort — bogo-sort
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
- moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- myth-making — a creator of myths.
- new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
- news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
- nosy parker — a prying person
- number keys — keypad
- nutty slack — coal
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- old hickory — Jackson1
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- packability — The quality or state of being packable.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
- 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.
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).