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

  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • taranaki gate — a rough-and-ready gate in a fence made from wire and battens
  • target market — intended customers
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
  • tree kangaroo — any arboreal kangaroo of the genus Dendrolagus, of Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
  • working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
  • works manager — a factory manager
  • wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
  • yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
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