12-letter words containing k, o, t, s
- kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- koussevitzky — Serge [sairzh] /sɛərʒ/ (Show IPA), (Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky) 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
- leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- likely story — dubious account
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- lookout post — a place from which a guard or sentry can keep watch
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- lover's knot — love knot.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- monk's cloth — a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- motor skills — coordination, ability to move
- nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- no thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- novokuznetsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in central Asia: an industrial center is located here because of coal deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin.
- on the books — registered
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- on the skite — on a drinking spree
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.