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

  • 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
  • take pride in — be proud
  • take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • 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.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • 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.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unforeskinned — circumcised
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
  • walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • wildlife park — animal reserve
  • wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
  • working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
  • yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
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