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15-letter words containing s, k, e, i

  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • speeding ticket — notice of traffic violation
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • squirrel monkey — either of two small, long-tailed monkeys, Saimiri oerstedii of Central America and S. sciureus of South America, having a small white face with black muzzle and gold, brown, or greenish fur: S. oerstedii is endangered.
  • st. kitts-nevis — a twin-island state in the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies, consisting of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis: formerly a British colony and member of the West Indies Associated States; gained independence 1983. 104 sq. mi. (269 sq. km). Capital: Basseterre.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
  • stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strike it lucky — to have some good luck
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
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