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9-letter words containing l, y, k

  • holly oak — holm oak.
  • hollyhock — any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, especially A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
  • holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
  • honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
  • hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
  • hyperlink — hypertext link
  • hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
  • irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
  • issyk-kul — a mountain lake in NE Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan). 2250 sq. mi. (5830 sq. km).
  • jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
  • jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
  • jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
  • jellylike — a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
  • jerkingly — in a jerking manner
  • jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
  • k&r style — (programming)   An ugly, obsolete, deprecated source code indent style that looks like this: if (cond) { } The basic indent is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; less commonly four. It is named after Kernighan & Ritchie because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. It is also called "kernel style" (because the Unix kernel was written in it) or Egyptian brackets. This style was popular when programmers worked on small displays, or when printing code on paper, becuase it saves vertical space. It should be avoided because the opening brace is easy to miss at the end of a long condition in an "if" or "while" statement and it makes it hard to pair up braces.
  • kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
  • kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
  • karyology — the study of the structure and function of cell nuclei.
  • katalyses — catalysis.
  • katalysis — catalysis.
  • kerflooey — Informal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail: As soon as the storm hit, every light in town went kerflooey.
  • ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
  • ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
  • key field — (database)   A field of a database (typically a relational database) table which together form a unique identifier for a record (a table entry). The aggregate of these fields is usually referred to simply as "the key".
  • key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
  • key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
  • key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
  • keyclicks — Plural form of keyclick.
  • keylogger — the practice of using a software program or hardware device (keylogger) to record all keystrokes on a computer keyboard, either overtly as a surveillance tool or covertly as spyware: Many employers are making use of keylogging to monitor their employees' computer habits.
  • kiddingly — to talk or deal jokingly with; banter; jest with: She is always kidded about her accent.
  • killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
  • killingly — a town in NE Connecticut.
  • kilobytes — Plural form of kilobyte.
  • kilocycle — a unit equal to 1000 cycles: used especially in radio as 1000 cycles per second for expressing the frequency of electromagnetic waves; kilohertz. The term kilohertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: kc.
  • kimberley — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
  • kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
  • kissingly — lightly; gently.
  • klystrons — Plural form of klystron.
  • knavishly — In a knavish manner.
  • knowingly — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
  • kollywood — the Tamil-language film industry, based at Kodambakkam in S India
  • koniology — the study of atmospheric dust and its effects
  • kulebyaka — coulibiac.
  • kyzyl kum — a desert in S Asia, SE of the Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. About 90,000 sq. mi. (233,100 sq. km).
  • kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
  • lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
  • lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
  • lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
  • lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
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