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13-letter words containing l, o, k, s, i

  • 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.
  • milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • milking stool — a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.
  • milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • people skills — ability to communicate
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • shoot-to-kill — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to kill rather than disable
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • silk stocking — a lady's stocking made from a very fine material such as silk or nylon
  • silk-stocking — rich or luxurious in dress.
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • 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 skills — ability to interact
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • solid-looking — reassuringly substantial or stable in appearance: They're a very solid-looking, intelligent couple.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
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