13-letter words containing n, k, o, s
- aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
- aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- alkaline soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
- ankyloglossia — tongue-tie.
- anticlockwise — If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- as we know it — If you talk about a thing or system as we know it, you are referring to the form in which it exists now and which is familiar to most people.
- at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
- aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
- back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
- backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- baker's dozen — thirteen
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
- bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
- be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
- boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control stick — the lever by which a pilot controls the lateral and longitudinal movements of an aircraft
- counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- counterstroke — a counterattack
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
- drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- endoskeletons — Plural form of endoskeleton.
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