13-letter words containing n, k, o, s
- sticks&stones — (language, functional programming) A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
- stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
- stock control — Stock control is the activity of making sure that a company always has exactly the right amount of goods available to sell.
- stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- symbolic link — (file format) (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- thousand oaks — a town in S California.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
- to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
- undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforeskinned — circumcised
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
- works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
- works manager — a factory manager
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.