13-letter words containing e, s, k, a, r
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro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
- dick size war — penis war
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- 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 rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- 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.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man