14-letter words containing s, k, e, t, c
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- 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.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- know the score — understand the situation
- knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
- knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- network closet — (networking) The place where network hardware (other than cabling) is installed. The space should be used primarily for storage, be dry, and have electricity available. Since network equipment rarely needs attention once installed and tested, the network closet can have limited accessibility.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
- rocket science — rocketry.
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls