13-letter words containing k, u, c, h
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.