13-letter words containing n, e, k, i
- 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).
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- northern pike — a pike, Esox lucius, of North American and Eurasian waters, valued as a game fish.
- one of a kind — sb or sth unique
- one-of-a-kind — unique
- order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
- ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- 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.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
- 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.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- 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.