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

  • king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • king-size bed — extra-large bed
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kinross-shire — a former county of E central Scotland: became part of Tayside region in 1975 and part of Perth and Kinross in 1996
  • 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
  • kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
  • kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • like ninepins — If you say that people or things are going down like ninepins, you mean that large numbers of them are suddenly becoming ill, collapsing, or doing very badly.
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • 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
  • milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
  • milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • 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).
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • 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
  • printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
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