13-letter words containing k, m, e, s
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- sickle medick — a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped pods
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
- skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
- small alkanes — Small alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons (=hydrocarbons containing as much hydrogen as possible, and containing only single bonds), usually methane, ethane, propane, and butane.
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
- smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
- smokelessness — the state or quality of producing or having no smoke
- smooth-spoken — speaking or spoken easily and softly.
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
- street market — outdoor stalls
- stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
- works manager — a factory manager