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13-letter words containing h, a, c, k, r

  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • 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.
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
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