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14-letter words containing s, k, e, n

  • console jockey — terminal junkie
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadokokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disk duplexing — (hardware, storage)   A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east pakistani — of or relating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
  • florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • german speaker — a person who speaks German
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
  • hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • housing market — property trade
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