15-letter words containing s, e, n, c, a, k
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- slap and tickle — sexual play
- speckle pattern — the visual appearance of a star as viewed through a large telescope, with irregularities caused by the distorting effect of local turbulence in the earth's atmosphere.
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- wernicke's area — a portion of the left posterior temporal lobe of the brain, involved in the ability to understand words.