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13-letter words containing e, a, k

  • cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
  • crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • cream cracker — Cream crackers are crisp dry biscuits which are eaten with cheese.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
  • cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • 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)
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • denmark veseyDenmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
  • desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro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
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
  • fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
  • farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
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