13-letter words containing d, k
- break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
- break it down — stop it
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- bulkhead deck — the uppermost continuous deck in the hull of a vessel, forming watertight compartments with the main transverse bulkheads.
- cakes and ale — the good things of life; worldly pleasures
- called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
- candidate key — (database) One of several possible attributes or combinations of attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a body of information (a "record"). The chosen candidate key is called the primary key.
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cassette deck — a machine that is used for listening to cassettes and sometimes also for recording them
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
- charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
- chicken adder — milk snake.
- chicken divan — a casserole of boned chicken breast, broccoli or asparagus spears, and cheese sauce
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- childlikeness — the character of being like a child
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- chuckleheaded — a stupid person; blockhead.
- cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- dick size war — penis war
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digging stick — a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
- digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- dimethylketol — acetoin.