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12-letter words containing a, l, s, k

  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smalltalk-80 — (language)   The classic standard Smalltalk dialect, described in Adele's book, cited below, commonly known as "The Blue Book". Mail server: [email protected]
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spark-killer — a device for diminishing sparking, consisting of a capacitor and a resistor connected in series across two points where sparking may occur in a circuit.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stanislavski — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • to talk shop — If you say that people are talking shop, you mean that they are talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work.
  • trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
  • unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
  • vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
  • velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walk spanish — 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.
  • walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
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