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12-letter words containing k, i, n, a, s, e

  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • 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.
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • 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.
  • skin disease — condition affecting the skin
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
  • snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • sneakishness — the quality or characteristic of being a sneak or sneaky
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
  • take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
  • unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
  • vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
  • vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
  • windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
  • wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
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