15-letter words containing k, e, r, a
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- dvorak keyboard — a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.
- eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
- emergency brake — hand brake in car
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- farmers' market — a market or group of stalls and booths where farmers and sometimes other vendors sell their products directly to consumers.
- filemaker, inc. — (company) The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
- fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
- for the sake of — for the good of
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- freak of nature — a person or animal that is born or grows with abnormal physical features.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
- grammar checker — a utility that allows the user to check a document for errors of grammar
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
- great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.