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18-letter words containing k, r, a, t

  • nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • north saskatchewan — a river in S central Canada, flowing E from the Rocky Mountains and joining the South Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 760 miles (1223 km) long.
  • north truchas peak — a mountain in N New Mexico, near Santa Fe: one of the three Truchas Peaks. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
  • now you're talking — at last you're saying something agreeable
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • on the back burner — low priority
  • optical disk drive — (hardware)   (Or "optical disc drive", "optical storage") A generic term for any device that reads and/or writes optical media, i.e. compact discs, DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs or future media that uses light (from a small laser) to read data off a removable, rotating disk. At least one such drive is commonly installed in most personal computers to allow them to play and/or record audio and video media and load and store data such as program installers. The floppy disk has been replaced by optical media due to its vastly greater capacity, e.g. 50,000 megabytes for a dual-layer blu-ray disc compared with 1.5 megabytes for a floppy (over 30,000 times as much).
  • optical soundtrack — the final soundtrack on a motion picture, which appears as a band of black and white serrations along a strip of film to the left of the composite print. Light is shined through the serrations and is converted to audible sound.
  • oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • percentile ranking — the percentage of scores that a particular score is greater than
  • peter tschaikowsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • porter-house steak — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
  • quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
  • radiation sickness — sickness caused by irradiation with x-rays or other nuclear radiation as a result of therapeutic treatment, accidental exposure, or a nuclear bomb explosion and characterized by nausea, vomiting, headache, cramps, diarrhea, loss of hair and teeth, destruction of white blood cells, and prolonged hemorrhage.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • rattlesnake master — any of various plants of the genus Eryngium, especially E. yuccifolium, having spiny leaves and dense, rounded flower heads.
  • relative major key — a major key that has the same key signature as a minor key, but a different tonic
  • relative minor key — a minor key that has the same key signature as a major key, but a different tonic
  • right-to-work laws — a state law making it illegal to refuse employment to a person for the sole reason that he or she is not a union member.
  • risk based testing — (testing)   Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • saskatchewan party — (in Canada) a Saskatchewan political party formed by former members of the provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal Parties
  • short, sharp shock — A short, sharp shock is a punishment that is fairly harsh and severe but only lasts for a short time.
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • statutory sick pay — the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • swartkrans ape-man — the fossil remains of the extinct hominid Australopithecus robustus, found at Swartkrans, Republic of South Africa: formerly classified in the genus Paranthropus.
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • take a deep breath — If you say that you took a deep breath before doing something dangerous or frightening, you mean that you tried to make yourself feel strong and confident.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • task control block — (architecture)   An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the northern karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa, north of the Central Karoo
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