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13-letter words containing a, g, k

  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
  • changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • flat knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally on needles set in a straight line.
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • giant-killing — In sport, when a weaker team or competitor beats a much stronger, well-known team or competitor, their success is sometimes called a giant-killing.
  • give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • gnu smalltalk — (language)   A GNU version of Smalltalk, by Steven Byrne <[email protected]>. Version 1.1.1,
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • 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.
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