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11-letter words containing r, a, k, e

  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • peacekeeper — a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator: Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.
  • peacock ore — bornite.
  • peak period — the busiest or most popular time
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • press brake — brake1 (def 6).
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • primary key — (database)   A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • quacksalver — a quack doctor.
  • quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
  • racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
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