14-letter words containing e, s, k, i, m
- speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.