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13-letter words containing s, i, n, k

  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • sticks&stones — (language, functional programming)   A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
  • stinking iris — an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruised
  • stinking smut — bunt3 .
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
  • stressed skin — a composite plywood material used especially in the construction of light aircraft
  • string bikini — a skimpy bikini having often a triangular covering part held in place by narrow, string-like ties
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • 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.
  • talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • 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.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • trash-talking — disparaging or boastful language used especially to demoralize or intimidate opponents: trash-talking in the locker room.
  • turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • unforeskinned — circumcised
  • unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • unknowingness — a state of not knowing
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
  • visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
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