12-letter words with K in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter K is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of K in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how K in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| motherfucker | 26 | insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | - |
| thanksgiving | 24 | a short prayer of thanks before a meal | - |
| handkerchief | 28 | a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | - |
| breakthrough | 25 | a productive insight | - |
| troublemaker | 20 | someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | - |
| breathtaking | 22 | tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | breathtaking adventure |
| acknowledged | 24 | generally accepted | - |
| sleepwalking | 22 | walking by a person who is asleep | - |
| housekeeping | 22 | the work of cleaning and running a house | - |
| spokesperson | 20 | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government |
| backstabbing | 25 | - | - |
| unmistakable | 20 | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | - |
| heartbreaker | 21 | a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| straitjacket | 25 | a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | - |
| racketeering | 19 | engaging in a racket | - |
| speakerphone | 23 | a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
| fiddlesticks | 23 | - | - |
| recklessness | 18 | the trait of giving little thought to danger | - |
| marksmanship | 25 | skill in shooting | - |
| unremarkable | 20 | found in the ordinary course of events | - |
| frankincense | 21 | an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | - |
| homesickness | 23 | a longing to return home | - |
| interlocking | 19 | the act of interlocking or meshing | an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check |
| cantankerous | 18 | stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | - |
| lovesickness | 21 | a pining for a loved one | - |
| bloodsucking | 22 | of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | bloodsucking blackmailer |
| streetwalker | 19 | a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | - |
| cockfighting | 28 | participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
| skateboarder | 19 | someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
| pumpernickel | 24 | bread made of coarse rye flour | - |
| businesslike | 18 | not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | - |
| unmistakably | 23 | in a signal manner | - |
| breaststroke | 18 | a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
| peacekeeping | 23 | the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | - |
| masterstroke | 18 | an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery | - |
| cabinetmaker | 22 | a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | - |
| checkerboard | 26 | a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | - |
| thankfulness | 22 | warm friendly feelings of gratitude | - |
| glockenspiel | 21 | a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | - |
| headshrinker | 23 | - | - |
| swashbuckler | 26 | a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | - |
| wicketkeeper | 27 | - | - |
| earthshaking | 23 | sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | earthshaking proposals |
| backlighting | 25 | lighting from behind | - |
| backbreaking | 27 | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | - |
| blackcurrant | 22 | - | - |
| bushwhacking | 30 | lying in ambush | bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush |
| rubbernecker | 22 | a person who stares inquisitively | - |
| unthinkingly | 23 | in a thoughtless manner | - |
| backstopping | 25 | - | - |
| ankylosaurus | 19 | having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | - |
| stakhanovite | 22 | - | - |
| unlikelihood | 20 | the improbability of a specified outcome | - |
| endoskeletal | 17 | - | - |
| endoskeleton | 17 | the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
| enterokinase | 16 | enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin | - |
| enkephalines | 21 | - | - |
| enkernelling | 17 | - | - |
| exoskeletons | 23 | - | - |
| fingerpicked | 25 | - | - |
| finicketiest | 21 | - | - |
| firecrackers | 23 | - | - |
| fieldworkers | 23 | - | - |
| ficklenesses | 21 | - | - |
| flickertails | 21 | - | - |
| floorwalkers | 22 | - | - |
| flickeringly | 25 | - | - |
| flashbacking | 27 | - | - |
| fairnitickle | 21 | - | - |
| fairnytickle | 24 | - | - |
| ferronickels | 21 | - | - |
| fernitickles | 21 | - | - |
| fernytickles | 24 | - | - |
| farnarkeling | 20 | - | - |
| fecklessness | 21 | worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
| friskinesses | 19 | - | - |
| freakinesses | 19 | - | - |
| freakishness | 22 | marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | - |
| frankalmoign | 22 | - | - |
| frankfurters | 22 | - | - |
| franklinites | 19 | - | - |
| frankpledges | 23 | - | - |
| freethinkers | 22 | - | - |
| freethinking | 23 | the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | - |
| galligaskins | 18 | - | - |
| gallsickness | 19 | - | - |
| gallygaskins | 21 | - | - |
| gamebreakers | 21 | - | - |
| gamekeepings | 22 | - | - |
| gadzookeries | 27 | - | - |
| forecheckers | 26 | - | - |
| forechecking | 27 | - | - |
| foreknowable | 24 | - | - |
| folkloristic | 21 | - | - |
| folksinesses | 19 | - | - |
| folksingings | 21 | - | - |
| forsakenness | 19 | - | - |
| fortresslike | 19 | - | - |
| forethinkers | 22 | - | - |
| forethinking | 23 | - | - |
| foretokening | 20 | - | - |
| foreslacking | 22 | - | - |
| forespeaking | 22 | - | - |
| forkednesses | 20 | - | - |
| goldbricking | 23 | the evasion of work or duty | - |
| goalkeepings | 20 | - | - |
| goalkickings | 24 | - | - |
| goldilockses | 20 | - | - |
| glassmakings | 20 | - | - |
| glassworkers | 20 | - | - |
| glucokinases | 19 | - | - |
| googlewhacks | 26 | - | - |
| halterbreaks | 21 | - | - |
| halterbroken | 21 | - | - |
| haliplankton | 21 | - | - |
| handkerchers | 25 | - | - |
| handshakings | 24 | - | - |
| hamshackling | 27 | - | - |
| heckelphones | 26 | - | - |
| greenbackers | 21 | - | - |
| greenockites | 19 | - | - |
| greenskeeper | 19 | someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
| greenbackism | 23 | - | - |
| greenkeepers | 19 | - | - |
| griddlecakes | 21 | - | - |
| holidaymaker | 25 | someone who travels for pleasure | - |
| holoplankton | 21 | - | - |
| hillwalkings | 23 | - | - |
| honeysuckers | 24 | - | - |
| honeysuckled | 25 | - | - |
| honeysuckles | 24 | - | - |
| hookednesses | 20 | - | - |
| homeworkings | 25 | - | - |
| henpeckeries | 23 | - | - |
| heterokaryon | 22 | - | - |
| heterokontan | 19 | - | - |
| hyperkineses | 24 | - | - |
| hyperkinesia | 24 | - | - |
| hyperkinesis | 24 | - | - |
| hyperkinetic | 26 | - | - |
| hyperlinking | 25 | - | - |
| hypermarkets | 26 | - | - |
| hypokalemias | 26 | - | - |
| hydrocracked | 28 | - | - |
| hydrocracker | 27 | - | - |
| hydraulicked | 26 | - | - |
| huckstresses | 21 | - | - |
| houseworkers | 22 | - | - |
| hucksterages | 22 | - | - |
| housebreaker | 21 | a wrecker of houses | in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker |
| housekeepers | 21 | - | - |
| hucksterisms | 23 | - | - |
| hydrokinetic | 25 | relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
| imparkations | 20 | - | - |
| interworking | 20 | - | - |
| interkineses | 16 | - | - |
| interkinesis | 16 | - | - |
| interknitted | 17 | - | - |
| interknotted | 17 | - | - |
| interlinking | 17 | linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | - |
| interlockers | 18 | - | - |
| interleukins | 16 | - | - |
| junketeering | 24 | - | - |
| journeyworks | 29 | - | - |
| jackanapeses | 27 | - | - |
| jackasseries | 25 | - | - |
| jackhammered | 33 | - | - |
| jacklighting | 30 | - | - |
| jickajogging | 35 | - | - |
| jinrickshaws | 31 | - | - |
| jawbreakings | 29 | - | - |
| dockisations | 19 | - | - |
| dockizations | 28 | - | - |
| doughnutlike | 21 | - | - |
| doublethinks | 22 | - | - |
| doublespeaks | 21 | - | - |
| doorknockers | 23 | - | - |
| doorknocking | 24 | - | - |
| embarkations | 20 | - | - |
| earthquaking | 29 | - | - |
| earthshakers | 22 | - | - |
| dressmakings | 20 | - | - |
| drinkability | 22 | - | - |
| dumbstricken | 23 | as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | - |
| backbenchers | 27 | - | - |
| backblockers | 28 | - | - |
| backfittings | 24 | - | - |
| backflipping | 28 | - | - |
| backgammoned | 26 | - | - |
| backgrounded | 23 | - | - |
| backgrounder | 22 | a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | the secretary gave us a backgrounder on public health issues |
| backhandedly | 28 | - | - |
| backpackings | 29 | - | - |
| backdropping | 26 | - | - |
| backdraughts | 25 | - | - |
| backboneless | 22 | - | - |
| backbreakers | 26 | - | - |
| backchatting | 26 | - | - |
| backchecking | 32 | - | - |
| backcourtman | 24 | - | - |
| backcourtmen | 24 | - | - |
| backcrossing | 23 | - | - |
| backpedaling | 24 | - | - |
| autorickshaw | 24 | - | - |
| bankruptcies | 22 | - | - |
| backpedalled | 24 | - | - |
| backstabbers | 24 | - | - |
| backstamping | 25 | - | - |
| backstarting | 21 | - | - |
| backstitched | 26 | - | - |
| backstitches | 25 | - | - |
| backswordman | 26 | - | - |
| backsplashes | 25 | - | - |
| backspeiring | 23 | - | - |
| backscatters | 22 | - | - |
| backsheeshed | 27 | - | - |
| backsheeshes | 26 | - | - |
| backshishing | 27 | - | - |
| backslappers | 24 | - | - |
| backslapping | 25 | - | - |
| backslidings | 22 | - | - |
| backspeering | 23 | - | - |
| backswordmen | 26 | - | - |
| backtracking | 27 | - | - |
| backwardness | 24 | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | - |
| bakhshishing | 28 | - | - |
| baksheeshing | 25 | - | - |
| backwoodsman | 26 | a man who lives on the frontier | - |
| backwoodsmen | 26 | - | - |
| ballbreakers | 20 | - | - |
| asteriskless | 16 | - | - |
| biofeedbacks | 26 | - | - |
| billstickers | 20 | - | - |
| billsticking | 21 | - | - |
| bletherskate | 21 | - | - |
| blatherskite | 21 | foolish gibberish | - |
| blockbusters | 22 | - | - |
| blockbusting | 23 | - | - |
| bloodsuckers | 21 | - | - |
| blowkartings | 22 | - | - |
| bluejackings | 28 | - | - |
| blockinesses | 20 | - | - |
| blockishness | 23 | - | - |
| blokeishness | 21 | - | - |
| blackballing | 23 | - | - |
| blackberried | 23 | - | - |
| blackberries | 22 | - | - |
| blackbirders | 23 | - | - |
| blackbirding | 24 | - | - |
| blackguarded | 23 | - | - |
| blanketweeds | 22 | - | - |
| blackwashing | 27 | - | - |
| blacktopping | 25 | a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | - |
| blackguardly | 25 | lacking principles or scruples | - |
| blackhanders | 24 | - | - |
| blackjacking | 34 | - | - |
| blacklegging | 23 | - | - |
| blacklisters | 20 | - | - |
| blacklisting | 21 | - | - |
| blackmailers | 22 | - | - |
| blackmailing | 23 | - | - |
| baulkinesses | 18 | - | - |
| basketweaver | 24 | someone skilled in weaving baskets | - |
| basketweaves | 24 | - | - |
| bashibazouks | 32 | - | - |
| besprinkling | 21 | - | - |
| benchmarking | 26 | - | - |
| buttonhooked | 22 | - | - |
| bushwalkings | 25 | - | - |
| bushwhackers | 29 | - | - |
| cabinetworks | 23 | - | - |
| cackermander | 23 | - | - |
| buckjumpings | 32 | - | - |
| buckshishing | 27 | - | - |
| bullwhacking | 27 | - | - |
| camiknickers | 26 | - | - |
| cankeredness | 19 | - | - |
| candlesticks | 21 | - | - |
| bookbindings | 22 | - | - |
| bottlenecked | 21 | - | - |
| bootlickings | 21 | - | - |
| bookcrossing | 21 | - | - |
| bookkeepings | 25 | - | - |
| booksellings | 19 | - | - |
| bluestocking | 21 | a woman having literary or intellectual interests | - |
| bodychecking | 30 | - | - |
| boeremusieks | 20 | - | - |
| boilermakers | 20 | - | - |
| bokmakieries | 24 | - | - |
| brickfielder | 24 | - | - |
| bricklayings | 24 | - | - |
| brickmakings | 27 | - | - |
| breechblocks | 27 | - | - |
| brokennesses | 18 | - | - |
| brinkmanship | 25 | the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
| brankursines | 18 | - | - |
| brackishness | 23 | the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
| bradykinesia | 22 | - | - |
| breakfasters | 21 | - | - |
| breakfasting | 22 | - | - |
| breakdancing | 22 | - | - |
| breakdancers | 21 | - | - |
| breadbaskets | 21 | - | - |
| checkerberry | 28 | creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | - |
| checkerbloom | 27 | perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | - |
| checklisting | 24 | - | - |
| chalkinesses | 21 | - | - |
| chunkinesses | 21 | - | - |
| chuckawallas | 26 | - | - |
| chuckleheads | 27 | - | - |
| clickstreams | 22 | - | - |
| chickenpoxes | 32 | - | - |
| chickenshits | 26 | - | - |
| checkmarking | 30 | - | - |
| checkweigher | 30 | - | - |
| cheechalkoes | 26 | - | - |
| cheekinesses | 21 | - | - |
| cheekpouches | 28 | - | - |
| chemokinesis | 23 | - | - |
| chemokineses | 23 | - | - |
| chequerworks | 33 | - | - |
| chokeberries | 23 | - | - |
| cockabullies | 22 | - | - |
| cockaleekies | 24 | - | - |
| cockcrowings | 26 | - | - |
| cockernonies | 20 | - | - |
| cockeyedness | 24 | - | - |
| cockieleekie | 24 | - | - |
| cockleshells | 23 | - | - |
| cockneyfying | 30 | - | - |
| cocksinesses | 20 | - | - |
| cocksureness | 20 | total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | - |
| cockswaining | 24 | - | - |
| cockthrowing | 27 | - | - |
| cockyleekies | 27 | - | - |
| coffeemakers | 26 | - | - |
| computerlike | 22 | - | - |
| computerniks | 22 | - | - |
| comstockisms | 24 | - | - |
| cornhuskings | 22 | - | - |
| corkscrewing | 24 | - | - |
| countermarks | 20 | - | - |
| cupronickels | 22 | - | - |
| cuckoldising | 22 | - | - |
| cuckoldizing | 31 | - | - |
| cuckooflower | 26 | a bitter cress of Europe and America | - |
| damaskeening | 20 | - | - |
| cytoskeletal | 21 | - | - |
| cytoskeleton | 21 | a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
| daydreamlike | 23 | - | - |
| cycloalkanes | 23 | - | - |
| crankhandles | 22 | - | - |
| crankinesses | 18 | - | - |
| crakeberries | 20 | - | - |
| cramboclinks | 24 | - | - |
| creakinesses | 18 | - | - |
| countersinks | 18 | - | - |
| counterworks | 21 | - | - |
| crackberries | 22 | - | - |
| crackbrained | 23 | insanely irresponsible | - |
| crackerjacks | 33 | - | - |
| cracklewares | 23 | - | - |
| courtierlike | 18 | - | - |
| crosschecked | 26 | - | - |
| cryoplankton | 23 | - | - |
| croakinesses | 18 | - | - |
| crinkleroots | 18 | - | - |
| demarkations | 19 | - | - |
| debarkations | 19 | - | - |
| deerstalkers | 17 | - | - |
| deerstalking | 18 | stalking deer | - |
| diamondbacks | 24 | - | - |
| disembarking | 22 | - | - |
| antibacklash | 23 | - | - |
| antiblackism | 22 | - | - |
| aniseikonias | 16 | - | - |
| antalkalines | 16 | - | - |
| alkalescence | 20 | - | - |
| alkalescency | 23 | - | - |
| alkalimeters | 18 | - | - |
| alkalimetric | 20 | - | - |
| alkalinising | 17 | - | - |
| alkalinities | 16 | - | - |
| alkalinizing | 26 | - | - |
| archdukedoms | 25 | - | - |
| antileukemic | 20 | - | - |
| apparatchiki | 25 | - | - |
| apparatchiks | 25 | - | - |
| antitakeover | 19 | - | - |
| aeroplankton | 18 | - | - |
| aerobrakings | 19 | - | - |
| akolouthoses | 19 | - | - |
| aldermanlike | 19 | - | - |
| aftermarkets | 21 | - | - |
| acknowledger | 23 | - | - |
| acknowledges | 23 | - | - |
| rekeyboarded | 23 | - | - |
| retrorockets | 18 | - | - |
| rijksdaalers | 24 | - | - |
| roadblocking | 22 | - | - |
| revokability | 24 | - | - |
| requickening | 28 | - | - |
| schnorkeling | 22 | - | - |
| schnorkelled | 22 | - | - |
| schecklatons | 23 | - | - |
| rubbernecked | 23 | - | - |
| rudderstocks | 20 | - | - |
| roughnecking | 23 | - | - |
| rockabillies | 20 | - | - |
| rockhounding | 23 | - | - |
| rocksteadies | 19 | - | - |
| saltchuckers | 23 | - | - |
| saddlebacked | 23 | - | - |
| safecrackers | 23 | - | - |
| safecracking | 24 | - | - |
| safekeepings | 22 | - | - |
| seraskierate | 16 | - | - |
| semiweeklies | 21 | - | - |
| sharksuckers | 25 | - | - |
| sharemilkers | 21 | - | - |
| sheetrocking | 22 | - | - |
| shelftalkers | 22 | - | - |
| shellackings | 22 | - | - |
| shellcracker | 23 | - | - |
| shellshocked | 25 | - | - |
| shacklebones | 23 | - | - |
| scratchbacks | 27 | - | - |
| scorekeepers | 20 | - | - |
| scrimshanked | 24 | - | - |
| semidarkness | 19 | partial darkness | - |
| smokescreens | 20 | - | - |
| sneakinesses | 16 | - | - |
| sneakingness | 17 | - | - |
| sneakishness | 19 | - | - |
| snickersneed | 19 | - | - |
| snickersnees | 18 | - | - |
| snorkellings | 17 | - | - |
| slockdolager | 20 | - | - |
| slockdoliger | 20 | - | - |
| slockdologer | 20 | - | - |
| slickensided | 20 | - | - |
| slickensides | 19 | - | - |
| slinkinesses | 16 | - | - |
| sockdolagers | 20 | - | - |
| sockdoligers | 20 | - | - |
| sockdologers | 20 | - | - |
| shuttlecocks | 23 | - | - |
| sidetracking | 20 | - | - |
| sickernesses | 18 | - | - |
| sicklinesses | 18 | - | - |
| sicknursings | 19 | - | - |
| shockability | 26 | - | - |
| shockingness | 22 | - | - |
| shopbreakers | 23 | - | - |
| shipwrecking | 27 | - | - |
| shopbreaking | 24 | - | - |
| shopkeepings | 24 | - | - |
| skeletonizes | 25 | - | - |
| skinninesses | 16 | - | - |
| skirmishings | 22 | - | - |
| skittishness | 19 | characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | - |
| skrimshanked | 26 | - | - |
| skrimshanker | 25 | - | - |
| skullduggery | 22 | verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | - |
| skutterudite | 17 | - | - |
| skyrocketing | 26 | - | - |
| skimpinesses | 20 | - | - |
| skimmingtons | 21 | - | - |
| skeuomorphic | 25 | - | - |
| skillcentres | 18 | - | - |
| skillessness | 16 | - | - |
| skillfulness | 19 | the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
| skilligalees | 17 | - | - |
| skilligolees | 17 | - | - |
| skimboarders | 21 | - | - |
| skimboarding | 22 | - | - |
| sleepwalkers | 21 | - | - |
| skeletonizer | 25 | - | - |
| singlesticks | 19 | - | - |
| skankinesses | 20 | - | - |
| skateboarded | 20 | - | - |
| skeletonised | 17 | - | - |
| skeletoniser | 16 | - | - |
| skeletonises | 16 | - | - |
| skeletonized | 26 | - | - |
| spookinesses | 18 | - | - |
| spondoolicks | 21 | - | - |
| springkeeper | 21 | - | - |
| spokespeople | 22 | - | - |
| spirkettings | 19 | - | - |
| spitchcocked | 28 | - | - |
| spitstickers | 20 | - | - |
| starfuckings | 22 | - | - |
| sprinklering | 19 | - | - |
| spunkinesses | 18 | - | - |
| stakeholders | 20 | - | - |
| stakhanovism | 24 | - | - |
| staktometers | 18 | - | - |
| stalkinesses | 16 | - | - |
| spanakopitas | 20 | - | - |
