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14-letter words containing k, r, a, d

  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
  • duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • for god's sake — Some people use expressions such as for God's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness sake, or for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The expressions 'for God's sake' and 'for Christ's sake' could cause offence.
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
  • great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • inward-looking — person
  • jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
  • kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
  • kindergardener — Misspelling of kindergartner.
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • know backwards — to understand completely
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
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