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

  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
  • kite fighting — (in Malaysia) a game in which one player attempts to cut the string of his opponent's kite with the string of his own
  • kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knight errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • knight-errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • knitting wool — wool used for knitting
  • 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.
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
  • 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.
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • 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 anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • 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.
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • 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
  • market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
  • marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • 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 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.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • 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
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
  • national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
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