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17-letter words containing r, a, t, s, k

  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • market researcher — a person who carries out market research
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
  • nikita khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
  • nord-ostsee kanal — German name of Kiel Canal.
  • north lanarkshire — a council area of central Scotland: consists mainly of the NE part of the historical county of Lanarkshire; formerly (1974–96) part of Strathclyde Region: engineering and metalworking industries. Administrative centre: Motherwell. Pop: 321 820 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • particle kinetics — Particle kinetics is the study of the movement of particles and the forces that cause this movement.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
  • pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
  • porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
  • quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
  • russian turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • securities market — the market in stocks, shares, bonds and other securities
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • sickle cell trait — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • spark photography — photography of fast-moving objects, as bullets, by the light of an electric spark.
  • spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • stock certificate — a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.
  • strike-slip fault — a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault
  • sun-2 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc., based on the Motorola 68000. Followed by the Sun-3 Workstation.
  • sun-3 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the 1980s, based on the Motorola 68020. Successor to the Sun-2 Workstation, followed by the Sun-4 Workstation. The Sun-3 had a custom MMU. A couple of mutant models used an entirely different architecture.
  • sun-4 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the late 1980s[?], based on SPARC processors. The Sun-4 followed the Sun-3 Workstation. Later SPARC-based workstations were called "SPARCstations".
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • take sth on trust — If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it.
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