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13-letter words containing n, i, k

  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant-killing — In sport, when a weaker team or competitor beats a much stronger, well-known team or competitor, their success is sometimes called a giant-killing.
  • give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • greensickness — chlorosis (def 2).
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard-drinking — If you describe someone as a hard-drinking person, you mean that they frequently drink large quantities of alcohol.
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • high-sticking — to strike (an opponent) at shoulder level or above with a hockey stick.
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • honor killing — the killing of a relative, especially a female relative, as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the family, as dictated or sanctioned by some cultures and religions.
  • hook-swinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
  • hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
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