12-letter words containing k, o, a, n, s
- 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.
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- 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.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
- take counsel — receive advice
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- 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.
- thanks a lot — thank you
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- 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
- unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- workstations — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse