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13-letter words containing k, r, t

  • katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
  • kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • kidderminster — an ingrain carpet 36 inches (91 cm) wide.
  • killer t cell — a killer cell that destroys target cells only when specifically activated by helper T cells.
  • killer t-cell — a type of T-lymphocyte that is responsible for killing cells that are infected by a virus
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • kindergartner — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
  • knight errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • knight-errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • kyrgyz steppe — a vast steppe region in central Kazakhstan
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • 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.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
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