14-letter words containing k, m, e, s
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- struck measure — a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
- the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
- to make a fuss — If you make a fuss or kick up a fuss about something, you become angry or excited about it and complain.
- to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.