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13-letter words containing e, n, k

  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
  • prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
  • reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
  • return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • return ticket — a ticket for the return portion of a trip.
  • return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • runner's knee — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • 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.
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
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