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13-letter words containing i, c, k, n

  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • in the pocket — (of a fly half) in an attacking position slightly further back from play than normal, making himself available for a drop goal attempt
  • incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
  • kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
  • kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
  • knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
  • knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
  • knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • 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.
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
  • 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.
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • 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.
  • mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • microcracking — microscopic cracking
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
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