11-letter words that end in k
- in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
- in the pink — healthy, on good form
- in the tank — a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- james clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- kara-kalpak — one of a people living in the Kara-Kalpak Republic and adjacent areas.
- keeper hook — an S -shaped hook for securing doors, windows, etc., or for fastening a batten to a flat.
- killikinick — Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
- king's mark — one of the marks composing a hallmark, consisting of the head of a leopard, formerly a crowned head.
- kinnikinick — a mixture, as of tobacco and dried sumac leaves, bark, etc., formerly smoked by certain American Indians and pioneers
- kirkpatrick — Jeane (Jordan) [jeen] /dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1926–2006, U.S. diplomat: ambassador to the U.N. 1981–85.
- kizil irmak — a river flowing N through central Turkey to the Black Sea. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- knick-knack — a cheap ornament; trinket
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- ladder back — a chair back having a number of horizontal slats between uprights.
- large black — a heavy black breed of pig with long lop ears: used for crossbreeding
- lassen peak — an active volcano in N California, in the S Cascade Range. 10,465 feet (3190 meters).
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
- lemon drink — a drink made from lemon juice or that tastes of lemon
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
- make a book — to take bets on a race or other contest
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.