13-letter words containing k, r
- tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforeskinned — circumcised
- unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
- utility truck — pickup
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vandyke beard — a short, pointed beard.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
- w.k. roentgen — Wilhelm Konrad [wil-helm kon-rad;; German vil-helm kawn-raht] /ˈwɪl hɛlm ˈkɒn ræd;; German ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈkɔn rɑt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1923, German physicist: discoverer of x-rays 1895; Nobel prize 1901.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- work overtime — work extra hours
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
- work-furlough — work-release.