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13-letter words containing c, a, n, k, e

  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
  • knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • 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.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • 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.
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • monkey jacket — a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • neck and crop — completely; entirely
  • neck and neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • 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.
  • parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
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