11-letter words containing i, r, k
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- 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.
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- 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.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- 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.
- dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
- donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
- 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.
- drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
- drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
- embarkation — The act of embarking.
- eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
- 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.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- 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.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- 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
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.