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

  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • 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.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
  • risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • semi-darkness — partial darkness
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
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