14-letter words containing s, d, a, k
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
- straddle truck — a self-propelled vehicle, having a chassis far above the ground, for carrying loads of lumber or the like beneath the chassis and between the wheels.
- suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
- take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- take the stand — to sit (or stand) in the designated place in a courtroom and give testimony
- tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- to shake hands — If you shake hands with someone, you take their right hand in your own for a few moments, often moving it up and down slightly, when you are saying hello or goodbye to them, congratulating them, or agreeing on something. You can also say that two people shake hands.
- tokara islands — a group of Japanese islands in the W Pacific Ocean, in the N Ryukyu Islands.
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday