13-letter words containing k, i, r
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
- brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
- break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
- break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
- break it down — stop it
- break service — to win a game in which an opponent is serving
- break the ice — to relieve shyness or reserve, esp between strangers
- breaker strip — breaker1 (def 4).
- breaker-strip — a person or thing that breaks.
- breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- bring to book — to reprimand or require (someone) to give an explanation of his conduct
- brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- cesky terrier — a sturdy long-bodied short-legged variety of terrier with a wavy grey or light brown coat
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
- cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
- chicken adder — milk snake.
- chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.