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13-letter words containing k, r

  • cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • camel cricket — cave cricket.
  • caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  • cattle market — A cattle market is a market where cattle are bought and sold.
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • cesky terrier — a sturdy long-bodied short-legged variety of terrier with a wavy grey or light brown coat
  • chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
  • character key — key
  • charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
  • cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
  • cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
  • chicken adder — milk snake.
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
  • chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
  • choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • circular-knit — noting, pertaining to, or made of a fabric made by circular knitting.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
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