12-letter words containing s, k, i, m, n
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- section mark — section (def 16).
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.