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

  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take to the road — to start traveling; set out
  • thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
  • three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
  • tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
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