Phrase Hound found 115 phrases and 114 compound words that contain keys. The most common are listed below. Open keys in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 115
- Alicia Keys
- arrow keysplural of arrow key: Any of a set of keyboard keys marked with directional arrows, used for navigation through documents and lists etc.
- House of KeysThe lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man parliament.
- keys to the kingdomA resource, usually information or knowledge, the possession of which gives the possessor access to power.
- function keysplural of function key: Any of a set of keys on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to activate a predefined or programmable function, especially a numbered row of keys (F1, F2, etc.) above the alphanumeric keys.
- Florida KeysA coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida.
- car keysplural of car key: A key used to unlock or start a car.
- Access keys
- private keysplural of private key: The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.
- keys to the cityplural of key to the city: An ornamental key sometimes given as a symbol of a freedom of the city.
- Cross KeysA number of places in the United States:
- Chinese keysFingerroot, Boesenbergia rotunda.
- mouse keysA feature where the mouse can be controlled with the numeric keypad.
- public keysplural of public key: One of the two keys used in asymmetric cryptography, which is published to others.
- keys of the kingdomAlternative form of keys to the kingdom: A resource, usually information or knowledge, the possession of which gives the possessor access to power.
- I lost my keysIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys.
- dead keysplural of dead key: A special modifier key on a typewriter or computer keyboard, typically used to attach a specific diacritic to another character.
- foreign keysplural of foreign key: A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked.
- home keysplural of home key: The tonic or keynote of a piece.
- hot keysplural of hot key: A keyboard shortcut.
- minor keysplural of minor key: A musical key based upon a minor scale.
- primary keysplural of primary key: In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the …
- relative keysplural of relative key: A key with the same key signature as another key.
- soft keysplural of soft key: A button, located along a display device, which performs whatever function is shown near it on the display.
- unique keysplural of unique key: A set of one or more than one columns or fields of a table that uniquely identifies a record in a database table.
Compound words 114
- monkeysplural of monkey: A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- turkeysplural of turkey: The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
- donkeysplural of donkey: A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
- hotkeysplural of hotkey: A keyboard shortcut.
- subkeysplural of subkey: A partial key.
- lackeysplural of lackey: A footman, a liveried male servant.
- mickeysplural of mickey: The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity.
- keystonesplural of keystone: The top stone of an arch.
- hickeysplural of hickey: A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- softkeysplural of softkey: A button, located along a display device, which performs whatever function is shown near it on the display.