13-letter words containing k, r, e
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- 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)
- 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.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- dick size war — penis war
- 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.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- 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
- drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- 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
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- dyer's rocket — weld2 .
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- exercise bike — exercise machine like a bicycle
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- f.w. de klerk — Frederik Willem, born 1936, South African political leader: president 1989–94; Nobel Peace Prize 1993.
- fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- fellow worker — someone you work with
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?