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15-letter words containing s, k, a, g

  • a king's ransom — If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
  • acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • book of changes — an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations.
  • breaking strain — the amount of strain that, if applied to a particular material, will cause it to break
  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • chiang kai-shek — original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • docking station — device: charger
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
  • glanville-hicksPeggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • 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.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • language skills — the ability to use language
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.

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