15-letter words containing k, a, r
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- on/off the mark — If something is off the mark, it is inaccurate or incorrect. If it is on the mark, it is accurate or correct.
- orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
- parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- partners---desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- peak experience — a high point in the life of a self-actualizer, during which the person feels ecstatic and more alive and whole than is usual.
- peak production — the maximum production
- perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
- pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- play the market — to speculate on a stock exchange
- pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- prairie breaker — breaker1 (def 6).
- prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- rack-and-pinion — of or relating to a mechanism in which a rack engages a pinion: rack-and-pinion steering.
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government