13-letter words containing s, a, n, k
- kahramanmaras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kinanesthesia — A disturbance of deep nerve sensitivity.
- kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
- kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- king's ransom — an extremely large amount of money: The painting was sold for a king's ransom.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- 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.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- 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.
- manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
- market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- masking frame — easel (def 2).
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk