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

  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
  • gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • giant-killing — In sport, when a weaker team or competitor beats a much stronger, well-known team or competitor, their success is sometimes called a giant-killing.
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • immanuel kant — Immanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; German ih-mah-noo-el] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; German ɪˈmɑ nuˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1724–1804, German philosopher.
  • in-line skate — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kirkland lake — a town in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • make a living — earn money
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
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