13-letter words containing u, s, k
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
- multi-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- 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
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pick-up stick — one of a group of sticks used in the game of jackstraws.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- runner's knee — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).