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13-letter words containing k, i

  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
  • milking stool — a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • monkey engine — a pile-driver
  • 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
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • multi-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multiskilling — the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
  • national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • 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.
  • nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
  • no-knock raid — a search warrant that allows police officers to enter a property without knocking
  • nocking point — a marked part of the bowstring where the arrow is placed
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • 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
  • 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.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • office worker — employee in an office
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