13-letter words containing k, a, i, l
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- 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.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- serial killer — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- siwalik hills — (Siwalik Range) a range in N India, S Nepal, and N Pakistan, in the S Himalaya Mountains.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- skittle alley — a place where the game of skittles is played
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social skills — ability to interact
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- speed walking — power walking.
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- 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
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take the veil — to become a nun
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner