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14-letter words containing i, s, a, k, d

  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • spick and span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
  • spick-and-span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • 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.
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
  • 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.
  • take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
  • take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
  • tokara islands — a group of Japanese islands in the W Pacific Ocean, in the N Ryukyu Islands.
  • wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
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