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12-letter words containing s, e, k, r

  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
  • brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • by-a-whiskerwhiskers, a beard.
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
  • chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
  • chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
  • city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
  • clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
  • clos network — (networking)   A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
  • clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • cock lobster — a male lobster
  • cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
  • coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
  • concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
  • cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
  • corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
  • countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
  • crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
  • crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
  • cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
  • cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
  • crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • cypress knee — one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress.
  • dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
  • dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
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