13-letter words containing k, e, d
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
- multi-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- neck and crop — completely; entirely
- neck and neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- one of a kind — sb or sth unique
- one-of-a-kind — unique
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
- ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- 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)
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
- quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
- quarterdecker — an officer who serves on the quarterdeck; a gun situated on the quarterdeck
- quitted trick — a trick the cards of which have been collected by the taker and turned face down, further examination being prohibited.
- ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.
- rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- 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.
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- red deer lake — a lake in Manitoba, Canada
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).