12-letter words containing s, k, a, n, e
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knee-slapper — a joke evoking boisterous hilarity.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
- make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
- make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
- make friends — get to know people
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
- naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
- nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.