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13-letter words containing k, i, n, g, c

  • fighting cock — a gamecock.
  • fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • greensickness — chlorosis (def 2).
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • high-sticking — to strike (an opponent) at shoulder level or above with a hockey stick.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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.
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
  • 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.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • 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.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • microcracking — microscopic cracking
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • nocking point — a marked part of the bowstring where the arrow is placed
  • nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
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