13-letter words containing r, i, c, k, e
- killer t cell — a killer cell that destroys target cells only when specifically activated by helper T cells.
- killer t-cell — a type of T-lymphocyte that is responsible for killing cells that are infected by a virus
- killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
- knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
- knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- 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
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- 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
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- 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.
- 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).
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- office worker — employee in an office
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).