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13-letter words containing r, i, c, k, l

  • 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.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • 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.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • 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.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
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