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12-letter words containing a, s, k, n, c

  • gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
  • kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • knick-knacks — Knick-knacks are small objects which people keep as ornaments or toys, rather than for a particular use.
  • knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
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