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12-letter words containing y, e, r, k

  • hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
  • hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
  • inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • karyokinesis — mitosis.
  • karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
  • 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.
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • kernel style — K&R style
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
  • kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kitty litter — litter (sense 4)
  • kitty-corner — diagonal.
  • 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)
  • kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
  • likely story — dubious account
  • linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
  • mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
  • merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
  • new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
  • new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
  • nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • on your bike — away you go
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • ready-cooked — (of food or food products) cooked before it is sold
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
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