13-letter words containing n, a, r, k, s
- headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- kahramanmaras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
- katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- king's ransom — an extremely large amount of money: The painting was sold for a king's ransom.
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- 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.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
- manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
- market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- masking frame — easel (def 2).
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- 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.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks