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

  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • greensickness — chlorosis (def 2).
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • 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.
  • hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
  • hit the skids — get into difficulties
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • 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.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • 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.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • 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.
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • it looks like — it seems that there will be
  • 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.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • 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
  • 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.
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