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13-letter words containing a, k, i, n, g

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
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