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11-letter words containing s, k, e, t, c

  • skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
  • slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
  • slate black — a slightly purplish black.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
  • spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
  • spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
  • stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
  • steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
  • stem canker — a disease of plants characterized by cankers on the stems and twigs and caused by any of several fungi.
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • sticky tape — adhesive strip
  • stiffnecked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
  • stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
  • stock level — the quantity or number of goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
  • stock order — A stock order is a request, often created automatically by retail software, for new supplies to refill the inventory and replenish shelves.
  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • stockbroker — a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stockinette — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
  • stockjobber — a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.
  • stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
  • strike back — retaliate
  • stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • track shoes — light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better grip
  • track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
  • vest pocket — the pocket of a waistcoat
  • vest-pocket — designed to be carried in the pocket of the vest, in a purse, or in a similarly small space; miniature: a vest-pocket dictionary.
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
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