13-letter words containing a, k, i, n
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
- knight errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
- knight-errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
- kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- 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.
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- 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
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- 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 position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- 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.
- mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
- manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- 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.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- microcracking — microscopic cracking
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk