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13-letter words containing g, a, e, k

  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • make a living — earn money
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
  • mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
  • market garden — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
  • masking frame — easel (def 2).
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
  • message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • okanagan lake — a lake in SW Canada, in S British Columbia: drained by the Okanagan River into the Columbia River. Length: about 111 km (69 miles). Width: from 3.2–6.4 km (2–4 miles)
  • onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • 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.
  • ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • 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
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