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13-letter words containing k, a, e, s, o

  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • hognose snake — any harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, the several species having an upturned snout and noted for flattening the head or playing dead when disturbed.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
  • kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • master-stroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • masterstrokes — Plural form of masterstroke.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
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