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

  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • hairy cell leukemia — a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.
  • horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
  • i'm all right, jack — a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
  • identification mark — barcode or serial number
  • index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
  • inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
  • intervertebral disk — the plate of fibrocartilage between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • karachai-cherkessia — a constituent republic of W Russia, on the N side of the Caucasus Mountains. Capital: Cherkessk. Pop: 439 700 (2002). Area: 14 100 sq km (5440 sq miles)
  • kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
  • king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
  • kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
  • kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • know a thing or two — be experienced in sth
  • komandorski islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, in NE Russia, E of the Kamchatka Peninsula: U.S.-Japan naval battle, 1943.
  • lady baltimore cake — a white layer cake using only the beaten whites of eggs and spread with a fruitnut filling consisting of raisins, figs, walnuts or pecans, and sometimes candied cherries.
  • like a cheshire cat — If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely.
  • like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
  • lord baltimore cake — a yellow layer cake, using only the yolks of eggs and having a fruit-nut filling consisting of pecans, almonds, maraschino cherries, and macaroon crumbs.
  • make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
  • market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
  • memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
  • miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
  • mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • national book award — any of several awards given annually, 1949–79, to an author whose book was judged the best in its category: administered by the Association of American Publishers. Abbreviation: NBA, N.B.A.
  • natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
  • network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
  • niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
  • norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
  • olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
  • on the baker's list — in good health
  • optical mark reader — (hardware)   (OMR) A special scanning device that can read carefully placed pencil marks on specially designed documents. OMR is frequenty used in forms, questionnaires, and answer-sheets.
  • parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
  • parkinson's disease — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
  • particle kinematics — Particle kinematics is the study of the movement of particles, without considering the forces that cause this movement.
  • pen-and-ink drawing — a drawing that is done using a pen rather than a pencil
  • pileated woodpecker — a large, black-and-white American woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, having a prominent red crest.
  • pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
  • port jackson willow — an Australian acacia tree, Acacia cyanophylla, introduced in the 19th century into South Africa, where it is now regarded as a pest
  • portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
  • prairie rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis, of the prairies of western North America.
  • presentation skills — the set of techniques and skills required successfully to present oral information to others
  • prick up one's ears — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
  • puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
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