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11-letter words that end in ke

  • glass snake — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
  • gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
  • granitelike — Resembling granite.
  • grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
  • grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
  • green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
  • griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
  • hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
  • heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
  • hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
  • house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • icebox cake — a confection made from such prepared ingredients as cookies or whipped cream that requires no additional baking but is chilled in a refrigerator before serving.
  • if you like — You say if you like when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
  • ijssel lake — a shallow lake in the NW Netherlands; formed from the S part of the Zuider Zee by the construction of the IJsselmeer Dam in 1932; salt water gradually replaced by fresh water from the IJssel River; fisheries (formerly marine fish, now esp eels). Area: (before reclamation) 3690 sq km (1425 sq miles). Estimated final area: 1243 sq km (480 sq miles)
  • indian poke — false hellebore.
  • johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
  • johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
  • keep stroke — to make strokes in rhythm
  • killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
  • latticelike — Resembling a lattice.
  • leatherlike — Resembling leather.
  • lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
  • lemminglike — Resembling a lemming or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
  • liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
  • lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
  • machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
  • madder lake — a strong purple-red color.
  • magic smoke — (electronics, humour)   A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
  • mangia-cake — a derogatory term for a White person of Anglo-Saxon origin, used among Italo-Canadians
  • marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
  • multistrike — (of a typewriter or printer ribbon) able to be struck several times in the same place before becoming unusable
  • night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
  • on the make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • oneida lake — a lake in central New York. 20 miles (32 km) long; 5 miles (8 km) wide.
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • press brake — brake1 (def 6).
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
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