11-letter words containing a, k, e
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stress mark — a mark placed before, after, or over a syllable to indicate stress in pronunciation; accent mark.
- strike back — retaliate
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stroke play — medal play.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swan's neck — a shallow S-curve used in decorative work.
- swan-necked — having a neck that is long and elegant like that of a swan
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
- swiss steak — a thick slice of steak dredged in flour and pounded, browned, and braised with tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables.
- table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
- tack hammer — a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.
- tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
- tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
- take a bath — a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
- take a dive — to lose a prizefight purposely by pretending to get knocked out
- take a hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- take a hint — If you take a hint, you understand something that is suggested to you indirectly.
- take a joke — have a sense of humour
- take a leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- take a peek — look briefly, furtively
- take a risk — to proceed in an action without regard to the possibility of danger involved in it
- take a seat — sit down
- take a shit — to defecate
- take a walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- take action — act, do sth practical
- take advice — receive guidance
- take aim at — If you take aim at someone or something, you criticize them strongly.
- take charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
- take effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- take fright — be scared off
- take notice — listen, heed
- take office — come to power
- take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
- take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
- take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
- taken aback — toward the back.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tank engine — locomotive train
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- tax bracket — a category of taxpayer which is based on how high or low their income is