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13-letter words containing k, u, o

  • jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • 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.
  • kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
  • kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • 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.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
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