10-letter words containing n, o, k, i
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- juke joint — an establishment where one can eat, drink, and, usually, dance to music provided by a jukebox.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- kaolinitic — Of or relating to kaolinite.
- kaolinosis — the inhalation of clay dust leading to pneumoconiosis
- keep going — persist, continue
- kenilworth — a town in central Warwickshire, in central England, SE of Birmingham.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kensington — a former borough of Greater London, England: now part of Kensington and Chelsea.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- ketonaemia — an excess of ketone bodies in the blood
- keylogging — 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.
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- kidney ore — a form of hematite that occurs in kidney-shaped masses
- kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
- kilmarnock — Official name Kilmarnock and Loudon. an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in SW Scotland.
- kinescopes — Plural form of kinescope.
- kinetosome — a structure in some flagellate protozoans which forms the base of the flagellum, consisting of a circular arrangement of microtubules
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- kinglihood — the condition of being kingly
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kinsperson — A kinsman or kinswoman.
- kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
- klinotaxis — a wavering side-to-side motion of the head occurring as an organism moves forward in response to a source of stimulation, caused by the alternating reaction of sensory receptors on either side of the body.
- knee joint — articulation of the leg
- knickpoint — a break in the slope of a river profile caused by renewed erosion by a rejuvenated river
- knifepoint — the sharp tip of a knife.
- knighthood — the rank or dignity of a knight: to confer knighthood upon him.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- knottiness — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- koh-i-noor — an Indian diamond weighing 106 carats; now part of the British crown jewels.
- kolinskies — Plural form of kolinsky.
- kolkhoznik — someone who lives on a collective farm or kolkhoz
- konditorei — (often initial capital letter) a German pastry and coffee shop.
- koniggratz — German name of Hradec Králové.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- kuomintang — the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949, founded chiefly by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and led from 1925 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek; the dominant party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1949.
- kuropatkin — Aleksei Nikolaevich [uh-lyi-ksyey nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, Russian general.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- long drink — a drink containing a large quantity of non-alcoholic beverage
- look in on — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.