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13-letter words containing u, s, k

  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • gnu smalltalk — (language)   A GNU version of Smalltalk, by Steven Byrne <[email protected]>. Version 1.1.1,
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
  • house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
  • house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • 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.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • 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)
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • 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
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • 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.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • 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)
  • kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • 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.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
  • manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
  • market square — a square in a village, town, etc in which a market is, or was formerly, held
  • milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
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