13-letter words containing k, e, c, s
- 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.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
- glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
- greensickness — chlorosis (def 2).
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
- kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- 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.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up