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13-letter words containing a, k, u, r, e

  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • market square — a square in a village, town, etc in which a market is, or was formerly, held
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • 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
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
  • quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • quarter crack — sand crack.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quarterdecker — an officer who serves on the quarterdeck; a gun situated on the quarterdeck
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
  • take measures — act, do sth practical
  • trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
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