12-letter words containing k, e, s, t
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
- garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
- get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
- hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- interkinesis — interphase.
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha
- k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- keep tabs on — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
- ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.