13-letter words containing r, a, k

disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
first-aid kit — emergency medical set
flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
for a kickoff — the beginning of something
for chrissake — for Christ's sake
for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
frankenthaler — Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
germinal disk — blastodisk.
glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
greek revival — a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a more or less close imitation of ancient Greek designs and ornamented motifs.
greek tragedy — (in ancient Greek theatre) a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
growth market — a rapidly expanding market
hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
hard-drinking — If you describe someone as a hard-drinking person, you mean that they frequently drink large quantities of alcohol.

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