11-letter words containing k, i, r, e
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- 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
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- re-skinning — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
- recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reeled silk — a long strand made of silk reeled from a number of cocoons and not twisted or thrown. Compare spun silk (def 1).
- relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- rent strike — a temporary, organized refusal by tenants, as of an apartment building, to pay their rent, as in protest over inadequate services.
- 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.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- ribbed-knit — rib-knit (def 2).
- 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.
- rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
- ring-necked — having a ring of distinctive color around the neck.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- 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.
- risk-averse — reluctant to take risks; tending to avoid risks as much as possible: risk-averse entrepreneurs.
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rocky river — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- roller rink — a rink for roller-skating.
- rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
- selkirk rex — a breed of large curly-haired cat
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.