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15-letter words containing k, r, a, g

  • great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
  • great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
  • rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
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