11-letter words containing y, e, r, k
- gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
- gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- herky-jerky — progressing in a fitfully jerky or irregular manner: a herky-jerky home movie shown on an old projector.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hypermarket — a combined supermarket and department store.
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- kelly green — a strong yellow-green.
- 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
- keratectomy — excision of part of the cornea.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratolytic — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- krebs cycle — a cycle of enzyme-catalyzed reactions in living cells that is the final series of reactions of aerobic metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, and fatty acids, and by which carbon dioxide is produced, oxygen is reduced, and ATP is formed.
- lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
- lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- 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.
- mollydooker — (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey sort — bogo-sort
- new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- number keys — keypad
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters