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15-letter words containing k, o, a, n, s

  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take one's ease — to relax and be comfortable
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
  • yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
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