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15-letter words containing a, s, k, e, l

  • sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
  • sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
  • spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • unstatesmanlike — not resembling or befitting a political leader whose wisdom, integrity, etc win great respect
  • yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
  • yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
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