13-letter words containing k, w, e
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
- home row keys — home keys
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
- keep sb sweet — If you keep someone sweet, you do something to please them in order to prevent them from becoming annoyed or dissatisfied.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- 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
- 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)
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- know by heart — have memorized
- knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
- kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- make off with — take away
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- monkey wrench — spanner
- monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- new york fern — a shield fern, Thelypteris noveboracenis, of eastern North America, having yellowish-green fronds.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- office worker — employee in an office
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- packet switch — packet switching
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.