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

  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • 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.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
  • 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.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • masking frame — easel (def 2).
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • 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
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • nickel silver — German silver.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • northern pike — a pike, Esox lucius, of North American and Eurasian waters, valued as a game fish.
  • order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
  • ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • 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.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • 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.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
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