18-letter words containing k, h, i, r
- spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
- stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
- sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
- take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
- the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
- the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
- the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
- think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- wernicke's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
- work out the kinks — If someone works out the kinks in a situation, they resolve the problems associated with it.
- working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
- yelloweye rockfish — a red rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America, having eyes that are yellow and possessed of strong, sawlike bony ridges on the head.