13-letter words containing i, r, k, s
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
- pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.