13-letter words containing l, a, r, i, k
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- serial killer — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
- trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
- trash-talking — disparaging or boastful language used especially to demoralize or intimidate opponents: trash-talking in the locker room.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.