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

  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • no-knock raid — a search warrant that allows police officers to enter a property without knocking
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
  • packet driver — (networking)   IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • 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.
  • parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
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