13-letter words containing nk
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- run on a bank — A run on a bank is a situation in which borrowers are worried that the bank will fail and they all try to withdraw money at the same time.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
- shanks's pony — one's own legs as a means of transportation
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
- steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
- stinking iris — an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruised
- stinking smut — bunt3 .
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- symbolic link — (file format) (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
- take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
- thank heavens — used as an exclamation of gratitude and relief
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- thinking time — time to think
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
- wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- yankee doodle — (italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.