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

  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
  • stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
  • stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
  • strike it lucky — to have some good luck
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • take one's ease — to relax and be comfortable
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • take sb to task — If you take someone to task, you criticize them or tell them off because of something bad or wrong that they have done.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • ten-weeks stock — a stock, Matthiola incana annua, of the mustard family, having spikes of white, lilac, or crimson flowers.
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the earthshaker — Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
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