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13-letter words containing d, e, s, k, i

  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • multi-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • 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)
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • semi-darkness — partial darkness
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • sick headache — migraine.
  • sickle medick — a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped pods
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • side whiskers — sideburns: hair at side of man's face
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stressed skin — a composite plywood material used especially in the construction of light aircraft
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
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