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

  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
  • knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
  • kneehole desk — a desk with a space for the knees between two side panels
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
  • kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • like ninepins — If you say that people or things are going down like ninepins, you mean that large numbers of them are suddenly becoming ill, collapsing, or doing very badly.
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
  • market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • masking frame — easel (def 2).
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
  • 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.
  • milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • 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.
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • network storm — broadcast storm
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • 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).
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
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