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13-letter words containing k, s, e, r

  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
  • katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kidderminster — an ingrain carpet 36 inches (91 cm) wide.
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • kinross-shire — a former county of E central Scotland: became part of Tayside region in 1975 and part of Perth and Kinross in 1996
  • klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
  • knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • 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.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
  • kyrgyz steppe — a vast steppe region in central Kazakhstan
  • kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 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 superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
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