13-letter words that end in k
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
- franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- 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,
- go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
- hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
- horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- i don't think — a phrase added to an ironical statement
- in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- internet bank — a bank that allows customers to conduct business online, esp exclusively so
- invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
- invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- 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.
- kaufmann peak — former name of Lenin Peak.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- kneehole desk — a desk with a space for the knees between two side panels
- la plata peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,361 feet (4377 meters).
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- 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.
- leading block — lead block.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.