14-letter words containing k, r
- inkjet printer — a high-speed typing or printing process in which charged droplets of ink issuing from nozzles are directed onto paper under computer control.
- insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
- interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- internal clock — biological clock.
- inward-looking — person
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
- james h. clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
- jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
- jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
- johnny smokers — a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.
- jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- kangaroo grass — a tall widespread Australian grass, Themeda australis, which is highly palatable to cattle and is used for fodder
- kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
- karakoram pass — a high pass (5575 m (18 290 ft)) that crosses the Karakoram mountains in N Kashmir
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- karyotypically — (cytology) With regard to the karyotype.
- kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
- kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
- keep a rein on — to check, control, or restrain
- keep your cool — remain calm
- kegel exercise — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- kelp greenling — a food and game fish, Hexagrammos decagrammus, living among the kelp along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
- kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
- kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
- kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.