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13-letter words containing n, i, k

  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unforeskinned — circumcised
  • unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • unknowingness — a state of not knowing
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
  • vinaya pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
  • winnepesaukeeLake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • winnipesaukeeLake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
  • winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
  • wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
  • work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
  • working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
  • working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
  • working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
  • working group — A working group is the same as a working party.
  • working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
  • working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
  • working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
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