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13-letter words containing h, a, r, k

  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • north dakotan — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • pepper shaker — container that dispenses pepper
  • phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
  • radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
  • rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
  • rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
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