12-letter words containing s, k, e, t
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.
- deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- dessert fork — a fork used for eating certain desserts, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner fork.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
- enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- exoskeletons — Plural form of exoskeleton.
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.