13-letter words containing k, r, e
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- bunker buster — a laser-guided bomb designed to penetrate deep underground, as into rock or concrete, before detonating.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- cattle market — A cattle market is a market where cattle are bought and sold.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
- cesky terrier — a sturdy long-bodied short-legged variety of terrier with a wavy grey or light brown coat
- chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
- character key — key
- charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
- checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
- cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
- cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
- chicken adder — milk snake.
- chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
- christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.