12-letter words containing s, k, a, n, e
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
- take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take counsel — receive advice
- take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse