17-letter words containing s, k, e, t
- english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
- flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
- four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
- frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
- garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
- get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
- great awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- greek meets greek — equals meet
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
- heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- j. presper eckert — (person) One of the developers of ENIAC.
- japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
- jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
- john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
- kansas city steak — strip steak.
- kansas city style — a style of jazz developed in Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1930s, marked by a strong blues influence, the use of riffs as a characteristic formal device, and a less pronounced beat than that of the New Orleans or Chicago style of jazz.
- karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
- keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
- kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
- kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
- kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
- kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
- kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
- knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
- know when to stop — If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
- kvatro telecom as — (company) The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
- lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
- leninsk-kuznetski — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
- lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
- make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
- make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
- make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
- make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions