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13-letter words containing k, y

  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • the naked eye — If you say that something cannot be seen by the naked eye, you mean that it cannot be seen without the help of equipment such as a telescope or microscope.
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
  • tillamook bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the NW coast of Oregon: resort center. 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide.
  • to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
  • token economy — a method of encouraging desirable behavior, especially in a hospital setting, by offering rewards of token money that can be exchanged for special food, access to television, and other bonuses.
  • token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
  • trick cyclist — a psychiatrist
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • ugly duckling — an unattractive or unpromising child who becomes a beautiful or much-admired adult.
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • utility truck — pickup
  • vandyke beard — a short, pointed beard.
  • vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
  • velikiye luki — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Pskov.
  • vinaya pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • wacky tobacky — marijuana.
  • walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
  • west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
  • 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.
  • woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
  • working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
  • yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
  • yankee doodle — (italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.
  • yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
  • yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
  • yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
  • yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
  • yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
  • yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
  • york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.
  • yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
  • you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
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