13-letter words containing o, s, k
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- staccato mark — (in music notation) a dot, wedge, or vertical stroke over or under a note to indicate that it should be played staccato.
- standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- steve wozniak — (person) Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- sticks&stones — (language, functional programming) A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- 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 footage — film containing stock shots.
- 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.
- stokes' aster — a composite plant, Stokesia laevis, having lavender-blue, asterlike flowers.
- 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.
- street hockey — road hockey.
- 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
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- 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.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- 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
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- 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 keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
- 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.