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11-letter words containing k, r, i, t

  • link editor — linker
  • little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
  • little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
  • lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
  • maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
  • main market — the market for trading in the listed securities of companies on the London Stock Exchange
  • master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
  • mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
  • microskirts — Plural form of microskirt.
  • mike fright — extreme nervousness experienced on speaking into a microphone, as on radio or television.
  • miniskirted — Wearing a miniskirt.
  • ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
  • minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
  • mistracking — track system.
  • mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
  • motion work — clockwork by which the hour hand is driven from the shaft of the minute hand.
  • multi-track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • multistrike — (of a typewriter or printer ribbon) able to be struck several times in the same place before becoming unusable
  • multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • non-striker — a person or thing that strikes.
  • nonstrikers — Plural form of nonstriker.
  • not cricket — If you say that someone's behaviour is not cricket, you mean that they have not behaved fairly.
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outdrinking — Present participle of outdrink.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
  • platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • preticketed — having or furnished with a ticket beforehand: preticketed passengers.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
  • quick trick — a card, or group of cards, that will probably win the first or second trick in a suit, regardless of who plays it or at what declaration.
  • ra-ra skirt — a short skirt with two or more overlapping 'tiers' of material or flounces (based originally on skirts worn by US cheerleaders)
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
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