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16-letter words containing k, i, r

  • leisure sickness — a medical condition in which people who have been working become ill with symptoms such as fatigue or muscular pains at a weekend or while on holiday
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • lightning strike — A lightning strike is a strike in which workers stop work suddenly and without any warning, in order to protest about something.
  • lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • network engineer — (job)   A high-level LAN/WAN technician who plans, implements and supports network solutions between multiple platforms. A network engineer installs and maintains local area network hardware and software, and troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He may have CNE certification.
  • network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • nutcracker suite — a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
  • old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
  • packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
  • parallel parking — parking along curb in line with other vehicles
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
  • raise the stakes — to increase the amount of money or valuables hazarded in a gambling game
  • ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
  • razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
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