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13-letter words containing l, i, n, k, c

  • finback whale — rorqual
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • 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.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
  • kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • 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.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
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