9-letter words containing k, a, r, y
- karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell nucleus.
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- key frame — (graphics) A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
- key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- kirinyaga — the local name of Mount Kenya
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
- lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- mythmaker — a creator of myths.
- orkneyman — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
- peak year — a year when something reaches its point of greatest development, strength, etc
- perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- play park — A play park is a children's playground.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- royal oak — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
- sky train — elevated railway system
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.