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11-letter words containing a, r, k, i

  • demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
  • demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
  • derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
  • dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
  • diskography — discography.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
  • e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
  • fair dinkum — dinkum.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
  • finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
  • flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
  • franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
  • fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
  • furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
  • garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
  • gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
  • gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
  • granitelike — Resembling granite.
  • grass skirt — a skirt made from long grass, typically worn by female dancers from some Pacific islands
  • grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
  • griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
  • grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
  • hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
  • hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
  • hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
  • hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
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