15-letter words containing s, i, n, k
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
- fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
- frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
- french knickers — women's wide-legged underpants
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
- hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
- king's shilling — (until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- lake mistassini — a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)