13-letter words containing r, a, n, k, e, t
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
- kindergartner — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- knight errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
- knight-errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
- know by heart — have memorized
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- market demand — demand for a particular product or commodity
- market garden — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
- monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations