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13-letter words containing r, a, n, k, i

  • carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
  • 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 adder — milk snake.
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • circular-knit — noting, pertaining to, or made of a fabric made by circular knitting.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
  • crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
  • 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.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • 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.
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • 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.
  • internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • kangaroo vine — an Australian vine, Cissus antarctica, of the grape family, having shiny, leathery leaves.
  • karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
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