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13-letter words containing i, r, k, s, o

  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
  • toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unforeskinned — circumcised
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
  • working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
  • working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
  • working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
  • workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
  • works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
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