11-letter words containing k, a, r, y
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- kaffir lily — clivia.
- kailyardism — kaleyard school.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
- keratectomy — excision of part of the cornea.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratolytic — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lady-killer — a man who is irresistible to women or has the reputation for being so.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- mark antony — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- nosy parker — a prying person
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.