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13-letter words containing u, n, k, o

  • 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
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • 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.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • 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.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
  • outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
  • overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • pick-up joint — a place where people go with the intention of meeting someone to start a sexual relationship with
  • pick-up point — the prearranged place where you go to collect people or things
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
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