11-letter words containing k, i, t, e, r
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- 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.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- 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.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- 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.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- 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.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- 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
- strike back — retaliate
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
- superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
- tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
- take a risk — to proceed in an action without regard to the possibility of danger involved in it
- take fright — be scared off
- take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.