13-letter words containing n, k, o, s
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- milking stool — a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- network storm — broadcast storm
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- 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.
- 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.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- 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.
- return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.