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13-letter words containing k, n

  • counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
  • counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
  • counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
  • counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
  • counterstroke — a counterattack
  • 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 cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • 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.
  • cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
  • 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
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
  • 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.
  • dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
  • desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
  • dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
  • diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
  • 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.
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • 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 striping — data striping
  • donkey engine — a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • 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.
  • donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • 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
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • drink-driving — Drink-driving is the same as drunk driving.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
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