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13-letter words containing k, h, n

  • know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
  • knox-johnston — Sir Robin (William Robert Patrick). born 1939, British yachtsman. He was the first to sail round the world alone nonstop (1968–69)
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • 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
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • north dakotan — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
  • north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • northern pike — a pike, Esox lucius, of North American and Eurasian waters, valued as a game fish.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
  • ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
  • radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
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