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13-letter words containing s, m, o, k

  • monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • moshe shertok — Moshe [moh-shuh] /ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), Sharett, Moshe.
  • mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
  • network storm — broadcast storm
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
  • opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
  • smokelessness — the state or quality of producing or having no smoke
  • smoking stand — an ashtray mounted on a low pedestal, often placed next to an armchair, sofa, etc.
  • smooth-spoken — speaking or spoken easily and softly.
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • staccato mark — (in music notation) a dot, wedge, or vertical stroke over or under a note to indicate that it should be played staccato.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • 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.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • works manager — a factory manager
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