12-letter words containing i, r, k
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clickthrough — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dinner knife — a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
- dirty tricks — underhand activities and machinations in political or governmental affairs, usually intended to discredit an opponent
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.