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14-letter words containing k, r

  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
  • control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • corporate park — office park.
  • counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
  • crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disk mirroring — (hardware, storage)   Use of one or more mirrors of a hard disk.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
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