12-letter words containing a, s, k, e
- take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take counsel — receive advice
- take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
- take it easy — relax
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- take to task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- tartar steak — ground beefsteak seasoned with salt and pepper and served uncooked, often mixed with a raw egg and garnished with capers, onions, etc.
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
- track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- 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.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.