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13-letter words containing l, i, n, k, e, r

  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • 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.
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • 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).
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • 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.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • silent killer — a disease that has no obvious symptoms or indications
  • 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
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • 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
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • 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
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • 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.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
  • winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
  • working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
  • wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
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