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13-letter words containing k, y

  • digby chicken — a smoked herring.
  • dimethylketol — acetoin.
  • dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
  • disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • donkey engine — a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
  • greek tragedy — (in ancient Greek theatre) a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
  • hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
  • home row keys — home keys
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydroxyketone — a ketone containing a hydroxyl group.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
  • jomo kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
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