12-letter words containing n, e, k, i
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- kitty-corner — diagonal.
- klein bottle — a one-sided figure consisting of a tapered tube the narrow end of which is bent back, run through the side of the tube, and flared to join the wide end, thereby allowing any two points on the figure to be joined by an unbroken line.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- knee-capping — Knee-capping is the act of shooting someone in the knee and is carried out by some terrorist organizations as a form of punishment.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
- lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- lifelikeness — Quality of being lifelike.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- little-known — not widely known; not famed
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
- make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
- make certain — ensure
- make friends — get to know people
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
- marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.