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

  • anak krakatau — a volcanic island in Indonesia formed by volcanic eruptions during and subsequent to 1927
  • annular clock — a clock in the form of a vase, ball, etc., having the hours painted on a ring rotating beneath a pointer.
  • aperture mask — a perforated metal plate situated behind the faceplate of a color television picture tube and having holes aligned to insure that each of three electron beams strikes only its corresponding red, green, or blue phosphor dot.
  • archie bunker — a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
  • asylum seeker — An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country.
  • aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
  • autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
  • back pressure — the pressure that opposes the motion of a piston on its exhaust stroke in an internal-combustion engine
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
  • black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • black quarter — blackleg (def 1).
  • black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
  • black vulture — the Eurasian vulture, Aegypius monachus, of the family Accipitridae
  • blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • circular-knit — noting, pertaining to, or made of a fabric made by circular knitting.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
  • counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.

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