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11-letter words containing r, a, k, e

  • khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
  • kickstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of kickstart.
  • kierkegaard — Sören Aabye [sœ-ruh n aw-by] /ˈsœ rən ˈɔ bü/ (Show IPA), 1813–55, Danish philosopher and theologian.
  • killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
  • killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
  • 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.
  • kindhearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
  • kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
  • kinetic art — art, as sculptural constructions, having movable parts activated by motor, wind, hand pressure, or other direct means and often having additional variable elements, as shifting lights.
  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
  • kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
  • kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
  • klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • kleene star — (text)   (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
  • kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
  • lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
  • lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
  • ladder back — a chair back having a number of horizontal slats between uprights.
  • lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
  • lake albert — a lake in E Africa, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda in the great Rift Valley, 660 m (2200 ft) above sea level: a source of the Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile, which leaves as the Albert Nile. Area: 5345 sq km (2064 sq miles)
  • lake breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing during the day from the surface of a large lake to the shore, caused by the difference in the rates of heating of the surfaces of the lake and of the land.
  • lake edward — a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Great Rift Valley: empties through the Semliki River into Lake Albert. Area: about 2150 sq km (830 sq miles)
  • lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
  • lake kariba — a dam built across the Zambezi for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power; it created Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
  • lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
  • lake vänern — a lake in SW Sweden: the largest lake in Sweden and W Europe; drains into the Kattegat. Area: 5585 sq km (2156 sq miles)
  • lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
  • lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • land worker — a person who works on the land
  • large black — a heavy black breed of pig with long lop ears: used for crossbreeding
  • latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
  • law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
  • leatherlike — Resembling leather.
  • leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
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