16-letter words containing a, s, k
- reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
- reverse takeover — the purchase of a larger company by a smaller company, esp of a public company by a private company
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- roskind grammars — (tool) Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
- sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
- san antonio peak — a mountain in S California: highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Bernardino. 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
- seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
- shake one's head — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
- shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- sick as a parrot — very disappointed
- sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- skaneateles lake — a lake in central New York, SW of Syracuse: one of the Finger Lakes. 14 sq. mi. (35 sq. km).
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- solid state disk — (SSD)
Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time. - south lake tahoe — a city in E California.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.