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

  • killer satellite — an orbiting satellite that can be maneuvered to approach a target satellite and destroy it by exploding
  • kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • kipp's apparatus — a laboratory apparatus for producing a gas, usually hydrogen sulphide, by the action of a liquid on a solid without heating
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kitagawa utamaro — Kitagawa [kee-tah-gah-wah] /ˈki tɑˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1753–1806, Japanese painter, draftsman, and designer of prints.
  • kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knitting pattern — a pattern that tells you how to knit a garment or another object
  • kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • lake saint clair — a lake between SE Michigan and Ontario: linked with Lake Huron by the St Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River. Area: 1191 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • lakeland terrier — one of a breed of small, slender terriers, raised originally in northwestern England for hunting foxes.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • lateral thinking — unconventional or creative problem-solving
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • nutcracker suite — a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
  • packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
  • parallel parking — parking along curb in line with other vehicles
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
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