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

  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • coast live oak — California live oak.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
  • 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.
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east pakistani — of or relating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • grass parakeet — any of several Australian parakeets, especially the budgerigar.
  • great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
  • 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.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • 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.
  • helter-skelter — in headlong and disorderly haste: The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
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