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13-letter words containing a, s, k

  • 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.
  • first-aid kit — emergency medical set
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • gnu smalltalk — (language)   A GNU version of Smalltalk, by Steven Byrne <[email protected]>. Version 1.1.1,
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hognose snake — any harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, the several species having an upturned snout and noted for flattening the head or playing dead when disturbed.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • 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.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kahramanmaras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
  • kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
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