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12-letter words containing k, r

  • track record — a record of achievements or performance: an executive with a good track record.
  • track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
  • trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
  • tree cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • trick ending — an ending of a story or play, etc., that employs a surprise element or character to resolve the plot.
  • trick riding — the performance of tricks on horseback
  • trickishness — the quality of being crafty
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
  • truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
  • truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
  • truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
  • truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
  • trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
  • tuckered out — exhausted
  • turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
  • turkey shoot — a marksmanship contest, usually at a festive gathering, in which rifles are fired at moving targets, originally live turkeys.
  • turkey-shoot — a marksmanship contest, usually at a festive gathering, in which rifles are fired at moving targets, originally live turkeys.
  • turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
  • turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
  • turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
  • turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • turtlenecked — having a turtleneck
  • un-earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • under-keeper — a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • underkingdom — the domain of an underking
  • underskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
  • underskinker — a subordinate bartender
  • understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • unlooked-for — not expected, anticipated, or foreseen: They were confronted with an unlooked-for situation.
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
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