12-letter words containing k, e, i, r, t, s
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- likely story — dubious account
- make history — do sth of great significance
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- 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.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rent-seeking — the act or process of using one’s assets and resources to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
- ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- seraskierate — the headquarters of the seraskier, located in Constantinople; the Turkish War Office
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- skye terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a dark or light blue-gray, gray, or fawn coat.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock ticker — ticker (def 1).
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).