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13-letter words containing n, i, k

  • right-to-know — of or relating to laws or policies that make certain government or company data and records available to any individual who has a right or need to know their contents.
  • 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
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • semi-darkness — partial darkness
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • silent killer — a disease that has no obvious symptoms or indications
  • silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
  • silk stocking — a lady's stocking made from a very fine material such as silk or nylon
  • silk-stocking — rich or luxurious in dress.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • 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 ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • 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.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
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