11-letter words containing s, k, a, n, e
- disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- embankments — Plural form of embankment.
- embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- franks peak — a mountain in NW Wyoming: highest peak in the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains. 13,153 feet (4009 meters).
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- glass snake — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- kinesthesia — the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- 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.
- knavishness — The quality of being knavish.
- knee spavin — chronic inflammation of the carpal joint of a horse
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- 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.
- 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.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
- kwasniewski — Aleksander [ah-lek-sahn-der] /ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1954, Polish journalist and politician: president of Poland 1995–.
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.