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  • key frame — (graphics)   A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
  • key fruit — a samara.
  • key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
  • key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
  • keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
  • keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
  • keylogger — the practice of using a software program or hardware device (keylogger) to record all keystrokes on a computer keyboard, either overtly as a surveillance tool or covertly as spyware: Many employers are making use of keylogging to monitor their employees' computer habits.
  • keynoters — Plural form of keynoter.
  • keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
  • keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
  • keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
  • keystroke — one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
  • keyworker — The keyworker for a particular group of clients or patients is the person who works with them most closely and has most responsibility for them.
  • killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
  • kimberley — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
  • knobkerry — A wooden stick like a club, used in southern Africa.
  • kreymborg — Alfred, 1883–1966, U.S. poet, playwright, and critic.
  • lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
  • lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
  • lay clerk — lay vicar.
  • like fury — violently; furiously
  • lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
  • major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
  • makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
  • minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
  • mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
  • mykerinos — Mycerinus.
  • mythmaker — a creator of myths.
  • orkneyman — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
  • pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
  • peak year — a year when something reaches its point of greatest development, strength, etc
  • perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
  • playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
  • pokeberry — the berry of the pokeweed.
  • prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
  • reshevsky — Samuel, 1911–92, U.S. chess player, born in Poland.
  • reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
  • ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
  • ring-dyke — a dyke having an approximately circular outcrop of rock
  • sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
  • skybridge — Also called skywalk. a bridgelike structure for pedestrians built to link one building with another over a public alley or street.
  • skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
  • skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
  • smoke-dry — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
  • sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
  • squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
  • staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
  • tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
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