12-letter words containing k, i, o
- slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- 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
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- specksioneer — a whaler
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick it out — to carry on or endure something until it is ended
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stock option — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stock ticker — ticker (def 1).
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- stork's-bill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- stottie cake — a flat round loaf
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- strong drink — alcoholic drink
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- take pity on — show compassion, mercy
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
- ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
- tickler coil — the coil by which the plate circuit of a vacuum tube is inductively coupled with the grid circuit in the process of regeneration.
- tie the knot — an interlacing, twining, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob or lump, for fastening, binding, or connecting two cords together or a cord to something else.
- to keep time — If you keep time when playing or singing music, you follow or play the beat, without going too fast or too slowly.
- to make time — If you make time for a particular activity or person, you arrange to have some free time so that you can do the activity or spend time with the person.
- to mark time — If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen.
- to take time — If you say that something will take time, you mean that it will take a long time.