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13-letter words containing k, e, n, s

  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • 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.
  • honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
  • 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.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • in-line skate — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
  • inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
  • japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
  • katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • 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.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kidderminster — an ingrain carpet 36 inches (91 cm) wide.
  • kidney stones — an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney.
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • 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.
  • kinanesthesia — A disturbance of deep nerve sensitivity.
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • kinesiologist — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
  • kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • 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.
  • king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • king-size bed — extra-large bed
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kinross-shire — a former county of E central Scotland: became part of Tayside region in 1975 and part of Perth and Kinross in 1996
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