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12-letter words containing k, i, r, a

  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parking ramp — apron (def 6).
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
  • raking piece — a sloping piece of scenery, as on a television or stage set, especially such a piece used for masking the side of a ramp.
  • rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
  • reading week — university: week-long break from classes
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