11-letter words containing k, r, a, d
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
- dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deerstalker — A deerstalker is an old-fashioned hat with parts at the sides which can be folded down to cover the ears. Deerstalkers are usually worn by men.
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
- diskography — discography.
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
- dressmakers — Plural form of dressmaker.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- duck's arse — a hairstyle in which the hair is swept back to a point at the nape of the neck, resembling a duck's tail
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).
- fair dinkum — dinkum.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.