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13-letter words containing k, r

  • interleukin 3 — a lymphokine protein, secreted by T cells, that participates in the regulation of blood-cell production. Abbreviation: IL-3.
  • interleukin-1 — any of several proteins released from certain cells, especially macrophages, and having various effects on the activity of other cells, as promoting inflammation or enhancing T-cell proliferation. Abbreviation: IL-1.
  • interleukin-2 — Immunology. a lymphokine protein, secreted by T cells in response to antigen and interleukin 1, that stimulates the proliferation of T cells.
  • interleukin-3 — a lymphokine protein, secreted by T cells, that participates in the regulation of blood-cell production. Abbreviation: IL-3.
  • internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
  • invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
  • jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • kahramanmaras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
  • kangaroo care — a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • kangaroo vine — an Australian vine, Cissus antarctica, of the grape family, having shiny, leathery leaves.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
  • katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
  • katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • kernel parlog — (language)   A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
  • kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • kidderminster — an ingrain carpet 36 inches (91 cm) wide.
  • killer t cell — a killer cell that destroys target cells only when specifically activated by helper T cells.
  • killer t-cell — a type of T-lymphocyte that is responsible for killing cells that are infected by a virus
  • killer-diller — killer (def 5).
  • killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • kindergartner — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
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