11-letter words containing r, a, k
- in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- ioshkar-ola — autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 8994 sq. mi. (23,294 sq. km). Capital: Ioshkar-Ola.
- irrevokable — Alternative spelling of irrevocable.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jack ladder — Nautical. Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- jack mormon — a non-Mormon living amicably among Mormons.
- jack rabbit — any of various large hares of western North America, having very long hind legs and long ears.
- jack rafter — a rafter having less than the full length of the roof slope, as one meeting a hip or a valley.
- jack-rabbit — any of various large hares of western North America, having very long hind legs and long ears.
- jack-up rig — an offshore drill rig or platform having a floating hull fitted with retractable legs that can be lowered to the seabed to elevate the hull above wave level.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jackarooing — Present participle of jackaroo.
- jackass rig — a rig of sails not conforming to a recognized type.
- jackhammers — Plural form of jackhammer.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- jackrabbits — Plural form of jackrabbit.
- jailbreaker — One who breaks out of jail.
- james clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jaw-breaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- kaffir lily — clivia.
- kaffir lime — an Asian citrus tree, Citrus hystrix, having green fruit with wrinkly skin and aromatic leaves that are used in Thai and Indonesian cookery.
- kailyardism — kaleyard school.
- kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
- kaliningrad — a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.
- kana-majiri — the standard script of modern Japanese, in which kanji are used for root elements, supplemented by kana for inflections and particles and sometimes for indication of the Japanese pronunciation of kanji.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kanga pirau — fermented corn used as food
- kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
- kara-kalpak — one of a people living in the Kara-Kalpak Republic and adjacent areas.
- karaoke bar — a bar that holds karaoke sessions
- karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- karma-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
- katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.