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11-letter words containing r, a, k

  • granny knot — a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam
  • grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
  • grass skirt — a skirt made from long grass, typically worn by female dancers from some Pacific islands
  • grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
  • gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.
  • great lakes — group of lakes in North America
  • greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
  • green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • greenmarket — farmers' market.
  • greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
  • grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
  • grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
  • griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
  • grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hack hammer — an adzlike tool for dressing stone.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
  • hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
  • hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
  • half-broken — past participle of break.
  • hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
  • halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • hand-worker — a person who does handwork
  • hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
  • hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
  • hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
  • harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
  • header tank — a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus
  • health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
  • heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
  • heatseekers — Plural form of heatseeker.
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hypermarket — a combined supermarket and department store.
  • ice-breaker — An ice-breaker is a large ship which sails through frozen waters, breaking the ice as it goes, in order to create a passage for other ships.
  • icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
  • icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
  • image-maker — handler (sense c)
  • imparkation — the act of imparking
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