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12-letter words containing r, a, n, k

  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
  • mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • network card — network interface controller
  • new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
  • nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
  • north korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
  • north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • oakland park — a town in S Florida.
  • on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
  • orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parking ramp — apron (def 6).
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • raking piece — a sloping piece of scenery, as on a television or stage set, especially such a piece used for masking the side of a ramp.
  • rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
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