11-letter words containing y, a, k
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
- lake annecy — a lake in E France, in the Alps
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
- likeability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- make hay of — to throw into confusion
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- 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
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- moneymaking — profitable: a moneymaking scheme.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- myth-making — a creator of myths.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- nutty slack — coal
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- packability — The quality or state of being packable.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.