11-letter words containing s, e, k, o
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- houseworker — a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinesis — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
- ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
- keep kosher — to observe the Jewish dietary laws
- keep stroke — to make strokes in rhythm
- kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
- kenogenesis — Alternative form of caenogenesis.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- ketogenesis — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- ketopentose — (carbohydrate) A pentose that is also a ketose.
- ketosteroid — any of a group of steroids containing a ketone group.
- ketotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any ketose having four carbon atoms.
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kinesiology — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
- knobkerries — Plural form of knobkerry.
- knock-knees — a condition in which the legs are bent inwards causing the knees to touch when standing
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- knowingness — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- koeksisters — Plural form of koeksister.
- konigshutte — German name of Chorzów.
- 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.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.
- lake school — Lake Poets.
- 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.