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13-letter words that end in k

  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
  • printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
  • quarter crack — sand crack.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • quitted trick — a trick the cards of which have been collected by the taker and turned face down, further examination being prohibited.
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • right-to-work — of or relating to the right of workers to gain or keep employment whether or not they belong to a labor union.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocket attack — a missile attack
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • 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.
  • running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
  • ruptured duck — the symbol of an eagle with wings spread appearing in the honorable discharge emblem of the U.S. armed forces.
  • saleleaseback — leaseback.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
  • scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • sickle medick — a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped pods
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
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