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

  • hook-swinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
  • hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • in-line skate — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
  • inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • 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.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kidderminster — an ingrain carpet 36 inches (91 cm) wide.
  • kidney stones — an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney.
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
  • kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
  • kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
  • kinanesthesia — A disturbance of deep nerve sensitivity.
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • kinesiologist — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
  • kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • king of kings — Christ; Jesus.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • king's ransom — an extremely large amount of money: The painting was sold for a king's ransom.
  • 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.
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