13-letter words containing k, i
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
- cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
- cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
- cuticle stick — a piece of wood with a flattened end used to push back the cuticles from one's nails
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- dick size war — penis war
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digging stick — a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
- digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- dimethylketol — acetoin.
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- disk striping — data striping
- donkey engine — a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market