11-letter words containing o, a, k, r
- kilocalorie — one thousand small calories. Abbreviation: kcal. Also called Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie. Compare calorie (def 1a).
- kilometrage — The total distance, in kilometres, travelled.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knot garden — an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
- kohanga reo — an infant class in which the lessons are conducted in Māori
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- leukorrheal — Relating to leukorrhea.
- link loader — linker
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- look around — examine surrounding area
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make up for — compensate
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- 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
- market boat — a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
- market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.