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11-letter words containing k, i, r, a, l

  • mile-marker — a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.
  • multi-track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
  • park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • 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
  • pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • 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.
  • pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • ripple mark — one of the wavy lines or ridges produced, especially on sand, by the action of waves, wind, or the like.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
  • thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • title track — The title track on a CD, record, or tape is a song or piece of music that has the same title as the CD, record, or tape.
  • tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
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