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12-letter words containing k, s, t, a

  • kristianstad — a town in S Sweden: founded in 1614 as a Danish fortress, it was finally acquired by Sweden in 1678. Pop: 75 590 (2004 est)
  • 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)
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • 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 a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
  • make eyes at — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
  • mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
  • moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • 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)
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
  • rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
  • reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
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