13-letter words containing a, k, i, n
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
- 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.
- national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
- no-knock raid — a search warrant that allows police officers to enter a property without knocking
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- one of a kind — sb or sth unique
- one-of-a-kind — unique
- order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
- orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
- 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.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- 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).
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- 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.
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- 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.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- 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.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.