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12-letter words containing k, y

  • mossycup oak — bur oak
  • mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
  • muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
  • nankeen lily — a lily, Lilium testaceum, having drooping, fragrant, pink-tinged, yellowish or apricot-colored flowers with recurved petals.
  • nevinnomyssk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Stavropol.
  • new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
  • new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
  • night monkey — douroucouli.
  • noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
  • nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
  • north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
  • ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
  • omar khayyám — Omar, Omar Khayyám.
  • on your bike — away you go
  • on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
  • piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • quick-drying — (of paint, concrete, glue, etc) that dries quickly
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • ready-cooked — (of food or food products) cooked before it is sold
  • rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rock and rye — a bottled drink made with rye whiskey, rock candy, and fruit.
  • rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
  • shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • skeleton key — a key with nearly the whole substance of the bit filed away so that it may open various locks.
  • skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
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