15-letter words containing i, r, k
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
- hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
- ice-cream maker — a device used in making ice cream
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- ink-jet printer — a machine that prints using a method of printing streams of electrically charged ink
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
- ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
- jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kegel exercises — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.