12-letter words containing k, o, r, n
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- section mark — section (def 16).
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- smoke screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- smoke-screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- 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.
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- specksioneer — a whaler
- spokesperson — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- 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.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- stoney creek — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- 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
- strong drink — alcoholic drink
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- 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
- 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
- throckmorton — Francis. 1554–84, English conspirator, who with French and Spanish support plotted (1583) to depose Elizabeth I in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots: executed
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- token strike — a brief strike intended to convey strength of feeling on a disputed issue
- 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
- trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
- underkingdom — the domain of an underking
- understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unlooked-for — not expected, anticipated, or foreseen: They were confronted with an unlooked-for situation.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.