13-letter words containing a, s, k, i
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- 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
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
- manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- masking frame — easel (def 2).
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
- 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
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- 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.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- packet switch — packet switching
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- 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.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.