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.