14-letter words containing s, k, e, t
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
- 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)
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- make a stab at — to make an attempt at
- make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- 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.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- 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
- metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
- 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.
- new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- 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.
- partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- 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.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).