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13-letter words containing i, k, e

  • black crappie — a dark, spotted crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
  • black disease — an infectious necrotic hepatitis in sheep and occasionally cattle caused by toxins produced by infection with species of Clostridial. Secondary to liver fluke infestation, the disease is characterized by sudden death. So-called because of the black discolouration of subcutaneous tissues due to congestion and haemorrhage seen at post-mortem
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
  • black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
  • black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
  • black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
  • blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • break it down — stop it
  • break service — to win a game in which an opponent is serving
  • break the ice — to relieve shyness or reserve, esp between strangers
  • breaker strip — breaker1 (def 4).
  • breaker-strip — a person or thing that breaks.
  • breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
  • broken-winded — suffering from heaves
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
  • butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
  • cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • camel cricket — cave cricket.
  • candidate key — (database)   One of several possible attributes or combinations of attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a body of information (a "record"). The chosen candidate key is called the primary key.
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
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