13-letter words containing a, n, k
- one of a kind — sb or sth unique
- one-of-a-kind — unique
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
- orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- 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
- 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.
- parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
- 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
- pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
- 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.
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- 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
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- 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.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth