13-letter words containing s, i, n, k
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- milking stool — a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.
- 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.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multiskilling — the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks
- 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).
- 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
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- 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.