13-letter words containing s, k, o, i
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- sticks&stones — (language, functional programming) A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
- stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- symbolic link — (file format) (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforeskinned — circumcised
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
- works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers