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11-letter words containing a, k, i

  • platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • primary key — (database)   A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
  • printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • 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.
  • quail clock — a clock that announces the hours by a sound resembling that of a quail.
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
  • quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
  • quick march — a march in quick time.
  • quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
  • quick-hatch — a wolverine.
  • quick-march — a march in quick time.
  • ra-ra skirt — a short skirt with two or more overlapping 'tiers' of material or flounces (based originally on skirts worn by US cheerleaders)
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • ripple mark — one of the wavy lines or ridges produced, especially on sand, by the action of waves, wind, or the like.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
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