12-letter words containing y, a, n, k
- a sticky end — an unpleasant death
- alkalescency — the tendency to develop alkaline qualities
- alkylbenzene — (organic chemistry) Any hydrocarbon formally derived from benzene by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl groups.
- ankylosaurus — a plant-eating dinosaur of the Cretaceous period that had a tail resembling a club and a body covering of thick scales
- annie oakley — a free ticket; pass
- aykhona wena — an exclamation expressive of surprise, pain, pleasure, etc
- back country — The back country is an area that is a long way from any city and has very few people living in it.
- backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
- banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
- bank holiday — A bank holiday is a public holiday.
- bank robbery — theft from a bank
- black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
- black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- chickahominy — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Powhatan confederacy that inhabited eastern Virginia.
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dynamic link — (compiler) A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- gallygaskins — galligaskins.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jack-a-dandy — dandy (def 1).
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- karyokinesis — mitosis.
- karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
- keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
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