13-letter words containing a, g, k
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leading block — lead block.
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- make a living — earn money
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
- mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
- manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
- market garden — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
- masking frame — easel (def 2).
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
- microcracking — microscopic cracking
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- okanagan lake — a lake in SW Canada, in S British Columbia: drained by the Okanagan River into the Columbia River. Length: about 111 km (69 miles). Width: from 3.2–6.4 km (2–4 miles)
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.